Mark Scroggins was born on a military base in Frankfurt am Main, and grew up in various places before ultimately settling in Tennessee. He was educated at Virginia Tech and Cornell University, and taught for many years at Florida Atlantic University. He now lives in Montclair, New Jersey, and Manhattan. He has published four books of poetry, and his The Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofsky (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007) was widely reviewed. His essays and reviews have been collected in Intricate Thicket: Reading Late Modernist Poetries (University of Alabama Press, 2015) and The Mathematic Sublime: Writing About Poetry (MadHat, 2016).