Mark Tardi grew up in Chicago. He is the author of The Circus of Trust (Dalkey Archive Press, 2017), AIRPORT MUSIC (Burning Deck, 2013) and EUCLID SHUDDERS (Litmus Press, 2003), and he guest- edited AUFGABE NO. 6 (Litmus Press, 2010), an issue devoted to Polish poetry and poetics. A former Fulbright scholar, he is on faculty at the University of Łódź in Poland.