Mark Wunderlich is the author of four books of poems, the most recent of which is God of Nothingness, published in 2021 by Graywolf Press. His other books include The Earth Avails, (Graywolf Press 2014) which received the Rilke Prize from the University of North Texas and which was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award, Voluntary Servitude (Graywolf, 2004) and The Anchorage (UMass Press, 1999) which received the Lambda Literary Award. Wunderlich’s work has been published in over 30 anthologies including multiple volumes of The Best American Poetry, and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, and has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered.
Wunderlich has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, The Amy Lowell Trust, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program at Stanford University, and he was twice a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincteown.
Since 2003 Wunderlich has been a member of the literature faculty at Bennington College in Vermont where he currently serves as Executive Director of the Bennington Writing Seminars graduate writing program. He has also taught in the graduate program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, Ohio University, Stanford University and Barnard College, and has twice been a member of the poetry faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers Conference.
As an arts administrator, Wunderlich has worked at the University of Arizona Poetry Center, the Poetry Society of America, The Academy of American Poets, Poets & Writers and the Napa Valley Writers Conference. He currently chairs the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center where he also serves as a Trustee.
Educated at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he received a BA in German Literature and English, and at Columbia University School of the arts where he receive an MFA in Poetry, Wunderlich lives near the village of Catskill, New York.