Mark Neely's poems have appeared in Boulevard, Indiana Review, Salt Hill, FIELD, North American Review, Columbia Poetry Review, and elsewhere. His chapbook, Four of a Kind, won the Concrete Wolf chapbook contest and was published in 2010. He received his BA from the University of Illinois, and his MFA from the University of Alabama, where he was poetry editor of the Black Warrior Review. He is an Associate Professor of English at Ball State University, and the editor of a literary magazine, The Broken Plate. He lives in Muncie with his wife writer Jill Christman and their two children.