Meet a Poet: Mark Leidner

About the poet: Mark Leidner’s forthcoming poetry collection, Elegy for Pangaea, is forthcoming in September 2026 from Fonograf Editions. His previous poetry collections include Returning the Sword to the Stone (Fonograf Editions, 2021), Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me (Factory Hollow Press, 2011), and The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover (Sator/Two Dollar Radio, 2011). He also wrote the story collection Under the Sea (Tyrant Books, 2018), called “virtuosic” by the New York Times. Mark also wrote and produced the acclaimed 2019 science fiction film Empathy, Inc., which is available on streaming platforms. Mark is a graduate of the University of Georgia, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He grew up in Tifton, GA and now lives in northern California. His website is markleidner.com.

To view his poems in Russian and English, click here.

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