Mark Conway is the author of three books of poetry including his latest book, rivers of the driftless region. His previous books won the Gerald Cable Book Award and the American Poetry Journal Book Award. Conway’s poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Slate, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, BOMB and elsewhere, along with critical essays in the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. He has received two fellowships from the McKnight Foundation as well as several MSAB grants and others from the Jerome Foundation, the Corporation of Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony.