Mark Yakich is Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, where he is also editor of New Orleans Review. He is the author of the poetry collections Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross (National Poetry Series, Penguin 2004), The Making of Collateral Beauty (Snowbound Chapbook Award, Tupelo 2006), Green Zone New Orleans (Press Street 2008), and The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine (Penguin 2008). He is co-author of a book of essays about air travel, Checking In/Checking Out (NO Books 2011), and the author of a novel, A Meaning for Wife (Ig Publishing, 2011). With Christopher Schaberg, he is also co-founder and co-editor of Airplane Reading, a new media project aimed at rejunvenating airplane reading. In 2012, Mark was a Fulbright Fellow in the Faculty of Letters at the University of Lisbon. His latest book is an unconventional guide to reading and writing poems: Poetry: A Survivor’s Guide (Bloomsbury, 2015).

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