Mark Halliday is an American poet, essayist, professor, and critic based in Athens, Ohio. He has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Losers Dream On (University of Chicago Press, 2018). His awards include a Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fellowship, a Rome Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his work has been anthologized in the Best American Poetry series and the Pushcart Prize anthology. Since 1996 he has taught creative writing at Ohio University.