Mark Terrill

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 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 writings and translations have appeared in more than 1,000 journals and anthologies, including Ends & Beginnings (City Lights Review 6), edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Recent publications include a full-length collection of poems and prose poems, Great Balls of Doubt, illustrated by Jon Langford (Verse Chorus Press, 2020), a collection prose poems, The Undying Guest (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023), and a collaborative novel written with Francis Poole entitled Ultrazone (Verse Chorus Press, 2025). 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). He has lived in Germany since 1984.

In addition to co-authoring Ultrazone, Mark Terrill and Francis Poole have published two collaborative chapbooks of poetry, The Spleen of Madrid and A Pair of Darts (Feral Press).