Conway’s spare, imagistic poems concern the implications of eternity: which offers no past or future but rather an ever-present now.

Mark Conway, author of rivers of the driftless region (Four Way Books 2019), holds an MFA from Bennington College, and has studied at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Wharton School, and Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has received residencies from the MacDowell Colony and the Corporation of Yaddo, a fellowship from the Jerome Foundation, a scholarship from Breadloaf (2002), and won a number of prizes, including the 2005 Gerald Cable Book Award, the 2004 Aldrich Poetry Competition, and the 2003 Grolier Poetry Prize. He has worked as a poetry editor for Deadsnake, Apotheosis, and Minnesota Monthly, and is currently a poetry editor for Post Road.