Mark Russell

Mark Russell was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Somerset, England. He has worked as a university lecturer in Addis Ababa, a journalist in Cornwall, and now lives in Scotland where he works as a drama teacher. He has published two chapbooks, (the book of seals) and Saturday Morning Pictures (Red Ceilings Press, 2016 and 2015 respectively), and a pamphlet Pursued by Well-being (tall-lighthouse, 2013). His poetry has been published in The Rialto, The Interpreter's House, Tears in the Fence, Bare Fiction, and elsewhere. Spearmint & Rescue is his first full collection.