Mark Ward is a poet and occasional short story writer from Dublin, Ireland. His poetry chapbooks include Circumference (Finishing Line Press, 2018), Carcass (Seven Kitchens Press) and the prose/poetry hybrid HIKE (Bear Creek Press, 2021). A full-length poetry collection is forthcoming in 2023. He also regularly writes articles for The Bear Creek Gazette, but they're all lies. His website is here.