Mark Kraushaar has worked as a high school English teacher in Vermont, a pipe welder in Pascagoula, Mississippi, a motel clerk in Boston, a shoe factory worker in London, a wig salesman in Kentucky, and most recently as an RN in Madison. He has recent work forthcoming in New Ohio Review, AGNI, Antioch Review, Mudfish, and Yale Review. He is a recipient of Poetry Northwest’s Richard Hugo Award and has been included in Best American Poetry and the website Poetry Daily as well as Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry.
A full length collection, Falling Brick Kills Local Man, was published by University of Wisconsin Press as winner of the 2009 Felix Pollak Prize. His most recent collection, The Uncertainty Principle (Waywiser Press), was chosen by James Fenton as winner of the Anthony Hecht Prize.
