Mark Wisniewski’s poems have appeared in Ecotone, New York Quarterly, Poetry, Poetry International, Post Road and Prairie Schooner. His second novel, Show Up, Look Good, was published by Gival Press in 2011. His fiction won a Pushcart Prize and was selected by Salman Rushdie for The Best American Short Stories 2008 (Mariner). His poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issue 20 (2013) where his poem “Texas” won 2nd price in the Erskine J. Poetry Prize. [bio updated 2013]