Mark Terrill was born in Berkeley, California, shipped out as a merchant seaman, and has traveled extensively as a tour manager for various bands (American Music Club, Mekons, etc.). He has lived in Germany since 1984.

His collections of poems and prose poems include Bread & Fish (The Figures, 2001), Great Balls of Doubt (Verse Chorus Press, 2020), The Undying Guest (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023), and numerous chapbooks. His poems have appeared in print and online in more than a thousand journals and anthologies, including City Lights Review, Bombay Gin, Empty Mirror, Jacket, Diagram, Rattle, RHINO, and Talisman, and been translated into French, German, and Portuguese. His story “Bucket” appears in the Mekons’ collection Existentialism. Terrill has also translated poetry by Jörg Fauser (An Evening in Europe, Toad Press) and Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (An Unchanging Blue: Selected Poems 1962-75, Parlor Press).

Terrill participated in the School of Visual Arts writing workshop taught by Paul Bowles in Tangier in 1982, and has returned to the city many times. His 2002 memoir, Here to Learn: Remembering Paul Bowles, was recently republished by Moloko Print. His most recent book is the novel Ultrazone, set in Tangier and co-written with Francis Poole, with whom he has also published two two collaborative chapbooks of poetry, The Spleen of Madrid and A Pair of Darts (Feral Press).

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