Heinlein, Mark

Mark Heinlein was awarded the 2009 American Academy of Poets/Virginia de Araujo Award and the Bonita M. Cox Award for creative nonfiction. His poem "Gravity" was selected for the 2012 "Poetry On The Move" campaign to celebrate National Poetry Month. In 2013, Mark delivered his talk, "Family, Culture, and How a Poet Makes His Bread," at TEDx San Jose State University. His poems appear in Tar River Poetry, Caesura, Blood Lotus, Full of Crow, DMQ Review, Reed Magazine, and The Prose Poem Project. Born in Beech Grove, Indiana, he is a fishmonger and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.