Mark Ward is the author of Nightlight (Salmon Poetry, 2023) and five chapbooks: Circumference (FLP, 2018), Carcass (7KP, 2020), HIKE (Bear Creek, 2022), the interactive branching sonnet, Faultlines (voidspace, 2024) and most recently, I Was a Teenage Exorcist (Chaps Poetry, 2024). Forthcoming books include Masters, an ekphrastic chapbook responding to dead queer male painters’ work, from The Emma Press in 2025, and a second full-length collection, Real Estate, which will be published by Salmon in 2026. He edits Impossible Archetype, an international journal of LGBTQ+ poetry, now in its eighth year.
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