Mark McCaig’s is a recipient of an Individual Artist award in Poetry from the Maryland State Arts Council. His poems have won prizes from the Bay to Ocean Writing Contest and the Bethesda Literary Festival. He received a Pushcart nomination for his poem Beadles, and he has given poetry readings at WorWic Community College, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Studio 3903, and Poetry in the Park. His poems have been published in many journals, including Conte, DelMarva Quarterly, terrain.org, Bay Weekly, Hospital Drive, Caduceus and Voices. In 2011, he received a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council to host “Words in the Woods,†a literary series. He has Master’s degrees from Vermont College of Fine Arts and Harvard University. In 2008, the independent school he and his wife founded published his nonfiction and poetry collection Like Water, a book about Fairhaven School’s first decade. In 2014, Kattywompus Press published his Lifelist, a chapbook of prose poems.