Mark Halliday earned a BA and an MA at Brown as well as a Ph.D. in English at Brandeis University, and he currently teaches Creative Writing at Ohio University. He has won many awards for his work, including the Juniper Prize (1992), the Rome Prize (2001), and the Guggenheim Fellowship (2006). His book of poems, Little Star (1987), was a National Poetry Series selection, and he has also published his collections Tasker Street (1992), Selfwolf (1999), and Jab (2002). Mark Halliday also published his critical study Stevens and the Interpersonal (1991) and co-authored The Slighted Singer (1991) with Allen Grossman in addition to writing assorted essays on contemporary poets.
His interview, Out Towards the Right Hand Margin, appeared in Issue 16.2 Spring 2004. His poems “Late to Class” and “Summer 1935″ appeared in Issue 13.2-Summer/Fall 2001. “Landmark,” “Report from the Diagnostic Sessions,” “Thinking About Mitch Green,” and “Maharaja” appeared in Issue 10.2-Summer/Fall 1998.
