Mark McMorris

Mark McMorris was born in Jamaica and completed his graduate studies in comparative literature at Brown University. He is the author of Entrepôt (2010), The Café at Light (2004), The Blaze of the Poui (2003), a finalist for the Lenore-Marshall Prize, and other poetry titles. He is a former director of both the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice and the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University, where he is a professor of English. He lives in Washington, D.C.