Yakich, Mark

Mark Yakich is Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, USA, Editor of the" New Orleans Review", and a poet and novelist. He is the author of" Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross "(National Poetry Series, Penguin 2004), "The Making of Collateral Beauty" (Snowbound Chapbook Award, Tupelo 2006), and "The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine" (Penguin 2008). His first novel, "A Meaning for Wife "(Ig Publishing, 2011), was selected as the #1 Small Press Highlight of 2011 by the National Book Critics Circle. His next poetry collection "Spiritual Exercises" is f...