Mark Pawlak who bears the surname of a grandfather born in Lviv, is the author of ten poetry collections, most recently  Away Away (Arrowsmith Press, 2024), and the memoir My Deniversity: Knowing Denise Levertov (MadHat Press, 2021). His poems have been translated into German, Japanese, Polish and Spanish. and have been performed at Teatr Polski in Warsaw.  In English his poems and prose have appeared widely  in anthologies such as  The Best American Poetry, Blood to Remember: American Poets On the Holocaust, For The Time Being: The Bootstrap Anthology of Poetic Journals and in the literary magazines: New American Writing, Mother Jones, Poetry South, The Saint Ann's Review, and The World, among many others. He taught mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Boston (1979-2016), where he was Director of Academic Support  Programs and received the Chancellors Achievement Award. He lives in Cambridge.