Strand, Mark (1934– )

Canadian-born US poet and writer whose family moved to the USA in 1938. He wrote fiction, criticism, and children's books, and worked as a translator and editor. He is best known, however, for his lyric poetry, as in Selected Poems (1980).

He was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada. He attended Antioch (BA 1957), Yale (BFA 1959), and the University of Iowa (MA 1962). He taught at many institutions, notably the University of Utah (1981), received a MacArthur Foundation Grant (1987), and was named poet laureate by the Library of Congress (1990).