Mark Neely is the author of Beasts of the Hill and Dirty Bomb, both from Oberlin College Press. His awards include an NEA Poetry Fellowship, an Indiana Individual Artist grant, and the FIELD Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in New England Review, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Boulevard, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. Originally from Champaign, Illinois, he now lives in Muncie, Indiana, where he teaches at Ball State University.