Mark Kraushaar has new work appearing or forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, and The Gettysburg Review, and has been included in The Best American Poetry, as well as the Web site Poetry Daily. He has been a recipient of Poetry Northwest's Richard Hugo award and a full length collection, Falling Brick Kills Local Man, published by University of Wisconsin Press in 2009, is winner of the 2009 Felix Pollak Prize.