Mark Young was born in Aotearoa / New Zealand but now lives in a small town in North Queensland in Australia. He has been publishing poetry for over sixty-five years, & is the author of around seventy-five books, primarily text poetry but also including speculative fiction, vispo, non-fiction, & art history. His most recent books are Some Unrecorded Voyages of Vasco da Gama, from Otoliths, Home Hill, Australia; the downloadable pdf, Closed Environment, from Neo-Mimeo Editions, Nualláin House, Monte Rio, California; & The Complete Post Person Poems, from Sandy Press, Santa Barbara, California, all published in March, 2025. Mark recommends the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
