Mark Callanan is the author of three full-length poetry collections, Romantic (Biblioasis, 2021), Gift Horse (Véhicule Press, 2011), and Scarecrow (Killick Press, 2003), as well as two poetry chapbooks, Skylarking (Anstruther Press, 2020) and Sea Legend (Frog Hollow Press, 2010). He was one of the founding editors of the St. John's, Newfoundland-based literary journal Riddle Fence, and co-edited The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry (Breakwater Books, 2013). He lives in St. John's with his wife, poet/scholar/critic Andreae Callanan, and their children.