Mark Snyder grew up in Evergreen Park, Illinois. He serves as a Community TA in the course in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry at Coursera.org under Prof. Al Filreis. He has written three other experimental works: Epitaph, Come As You Are, and Vatadu, and created two albums of experimental music- Necessary Evil and Requiem- the latter a secular conceptual setting of the Mass composed in the days immediately prior to the death of his father. He lives in rural North Carolina.