Mark Wunderlich

Who is Mark Wunderlich?

Mark Wunderlich is an American poet. He was born in Winona, Minnesota and grew up in a rural setting near the town of Fountain City, Wisconsin. He attended Concordia College's Institute for German Studies, before transferring to the University of Wisconsin, where he studied English and German literature. After moving to New York City, he attended Columbia University from which he received an MFA degree.

Mark Wunderlich has published two collections of poetry, most recently Voluntary Servitude. He worked on his first book, The Anchorage, as his MFA thesis at Columbia University and finished it while living in Provincetown, Massachusetts. There he was friends with the poet Stanley Kunitz. A third book of poems, The Earth Avails, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press.