Mark Young lives in a small town in North Queensland in Australia, and has been publishing poetry for almost sixty years. He is the author of over forty books, primarily text poetry but also including speculative fiction, vispo and art history. His work has been widely anthologised, and his essays and poetry translated into a number of languages. His most recent book is les échiquiers effrontés, a collection of surrealist visual poems laid out on chessboard grids, just published by Luna Bisonte Prods. Due out later this year is The Word Factory: a miscellany, from gradient books of Finland.