Mark Callanan is the author of Scarecrow (Killick Press, 2003), which was shortlisted for the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Poetry; Sea Legend (Frog Hollow Press, 2010), shortlisted for the bpNichol Poetry Chapbook Award and won an Alcuin Society Award for Excellence in Book Design; and Gift Horse (Véhicule Press, 2011), named one of 2011's best poetry collections by The National Post. His poems have appeared in several anthologies, including Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s New Poets (Nightwood Editions, 2004), and Open Wide A Wilderness (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2009). He lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.