Corey Marks's Renunciation (University of Illinois Press, 2000) was a National Poetry Series selection. His poems have appeared in New England Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, and TriQuarterly. He has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Natalie Ornish Prize from the Texas Institute of Letters, and the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review. He teaches at the University of North Texas.