Mark Yakich
Poetry

Mark Yakich's debut book of poems, Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross, was a winner of the 2003 National Poetry
Series, and is full, according to poet James Galvin, of "journeys, crossings, and departures—all evocative of the loneliness, alienation, and desire for identity with another." Yakich's award-winning follow-up book, The Making of Collateral Beauty, is called "both companion to and descendant of" his first book because each new poem shares a title with a poem from the first book. Yakich has worked in the European Parliament and has degrees in political science, West European studies, and poetry.