Corey Marks

Corey Marks is an American poet.

Corey Marks holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston, an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and a BA in English from Kalamazoo College. He teaches at the University of North Texas¹ and is a judge, along with Jehanne Dubrow and Tarfia Faizullah, of the Rilke Prize.

His work appears in Antioch Review, Black Warrior Review, New England Review, Southwest Review, TriQuarterly, The Virginia Quarterly Review,² Paris Review,³ Legitimate Dangers, and elsewhere.

• 1999 National Poetry Series, for Renunciation
• 2003 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• Natalie Ornish Prize from the Texas Institute for Letters
• Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review ⁴
• 2011 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Press, for "The Radio Tree" ⁵

• ⁶The Rock That Is Not a Rabbit. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2023. ISBN 9780822967156.
• The Radio Tree. New Issues Press. 2012. ISBN 978-1-936970-06-3.
• Renunciation. University of Illinois Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-252-06898-0.

• "Portrait of a Child", NEA