Mark Neely's first book, Beasts of the Hill, won the 2011 Field Poetry Prize and will be published by Oberlin College Press in 2012. His chapbook, Four of a Kind, won the Concrete Wolf chapbook prize and appeared in 2010. His poems have appeared in Indiana Review, Barrow Street, Boulevard, Gulf Coast, Cimarron Review, and elsewhere. He teaches at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.