Mark McMorris

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Mark McMorris's most recent poetry collections are The Book of Landings, Entrepôt and The Café at Light. He is a two-time winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series Prize and has received The Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry. He also received two nominations for the Pushcart Prize and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series in 1999 and 2000. McMorris's critical writing has appeared in Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary, Xcp: Crosscultural Poetics, Tripwire and The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies. His fiction has appeared in publications such as Ancestral House: The Black Short Story in the Americas and Europe, Callaloo and Conjunctions. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, he is professor of English at Georgetown University.