Mark Cunningham received an MFA from the University of Virginia, and he lives now in central Missouri. If time was flexible and he could do whatever he wanted to, he'd be a Paleolithic cave artist. In particular, he would like to sculpt the two clay bison at the end of Le Tuc D'Audoubert. Since that seems unlikely to happen, or to have happened, he's taken to watching rugby on TV. He's also written three books 80 Beetles, BODY LANGUAGE, and 71 Leaves and, now, SPECIMENS, a book he thinks is, you know, pretty OK.