Mark Neely is the author of Beasts of the Hill (2012), and Dirty Bomb (2015), both from Oberlin College Press. His third book, Ticker (2021) won the Idaho Prize for Poetry and was published by Lost Horse Press and shortlisted for an Indiana Author Award. His awards include a Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, an Indiana Individual Artist grant, the FIELD Poetry Prize, and the Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award for Four of a Kind. His poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Boulevard, Copper Nickel, FIELD, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, New England Review, New Ohio Review, New Orleans Review, North American Review, Pleiades, Poetry Northwest, Rattle, Southeast Review, Willow Springs, and elsewhere. He teaches courses in creative writing, poetry writing, and literary editing and publishing. He is a senior editor for River Teeth: a Journal of Nonfiction Narrative.
Professional Experience
Professor of English
Ball State University
2016-present
Associate Professor
2009-2016
Assistant Professor
2004-2009
Curriculum Vitae
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Education
M.F.A. in Creative Writing
University of Alabama, 2002
B.A. in English
University of Illinois, 1993
Research and Publications
- “Subvocal (3).” Willow Springs 80 (Fall 2017): 12-13.
- “The Economy Stupid” and “Intelligent Design.” FIELD 96 (Spring 2017): 19-20.
- “First Blood,” and “United Church of Bruce.” Southern Indiana Review 24.1 (Spring 2017): 7-9.
- "Animal," "Automaton," and "Bruce's Faith.” New England Review 37.2 (2016): 123-125.