Mark Conway is the author of three poetry collections: rivers of the driftless region (2019), Dreaming Man, Face Down (2010), and Any Holy City (2005), and a chapbook, First Body (2004). He is the director of the Literary Arts Institute at the College of Saint Benedict in Saint Joseph, Minnesota, where he has worked for more than two decades. Conway holds a bachelor’s degree from SJU, as well as a master’s of fine arts in creative writing from Bennington College in Vermont.
Conway’s collections of poetry have received the 2009 American Poetry Journal Book Prize and been short-listed for the 2007 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. In 2012 he was awarded a McKnight Foundation Artists’ Fellowship for Poetry. Individual poems have appeared in numerous publications such as The Paris Review, Slate, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Agni, The Boston Review, The Harvard Review, and Bomb. Conway has also published critical work in the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature.
