Mark Yakich

Mark Yakich is Professor of English at Loyola University, New Orleans, Editor of New Orleans Review, and a poet and novelist. He is the author of Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross (Penguin), The Making of Collateral Beauty, and The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine (Penguin). His most recent book is an unconventional guide to reading and writing poems: Poetry: A Survivor's Guide (Bloomsbury).