Mark Turpin's first full-length collection, Hammer, published by Sarabande Books, won the Ploughshares' Zacharis First Book
Award in 2004.  In 1997 he received a Whiting award.  His poems have appeared in the The Paris Review, The Threepenny
Review, and Slate among others; they have been read on the Lehr News Hour (for Labor Day) and by Garrison Keillor for The
Writer's Almanac.  His work appears in many anthologies, and is also embedded in a Berkeley sidewalk as part of the Addison
Street Anthology, selected by Bob Hass.  He is the son of a Presbyterian minister. He received a Masters in Poetry from
Boston University at age 47, otherwise, he has spent 25 years working construction and building houses. He lives and works in
Berkeley, California.