Mark Scroggins was born in West Germany and grew up in a number of places, including upstate New York, California, Kentucky, and Tennessee. His parents were an elementary school teacher and a Russian linguist. He has written scholarly monographs on the poet Louis Zukofsky and the fantasist Michael Moorcock, and a critical biography of Zukofsky. He has edited a selection of Algernon Charles Swinburne's erotic poetry. His previous collections of essays and reviews are Intricate Thicket: Reading Late Modernist Poetries (2015) and The Mathematical Sublime: Writing About Poetry (2016). Scroggins's poems have been collected in DAMAGE: POEMS 1988-1022 and Zion Offramp 1-50. He lives in Montclair (New Jersey) and Manhattan.