Mark Jarman is the author of many books of poetry, including The Black Riviera, winner of the 1991 Poets' Prize, and Questions for Ecclesiastes, winner of the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is Centennial Professor of English, Emeritus, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.