Mark Neely is the author of Beasts of the Hill (Oberlin College Press, 2012) and Dirty Bomb (Oberlin College Press, 2015). His awards include an NEA Poetry Fellowship, an Indiana Individual Artist grant, the FIELD Poetry Prize, and the Concrete Wolf Press chapbook award for Four of a Kind. His poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, New England Review, Boulevard, Willow Springs, and elsewhere. He teaches at Ball State University and is a senior editor at River Teeth: a Journal of Nonfiction Narrative. He lives in Muncie, Indiana, with his wife, the writer Jill Christman, and their two children.