McCawley, Mark, 1964-2016

Mark MacCawley was born in January 1964, in Edmonton, Alberta.

He was a Canadian poet, writer, editor, and micro-press publisher. He founded Greensleeve Editions in 1988, a press that produced over fifty chapbook titles by numerous Canadian writers and poets. From 1986 to 1993, he taught poetry and fiction as a creative writing instructor for Continuing Education (now Metro College) in Edmonton, Alberta. Since 1993, he had edited and published the litzine, Urban Graffiti, a print journal that shifted to online publication in 2011. His own fiction and poetry appeared widely in Canada in magazines and the anthologies "Burning Ambitions: The Anthology of Short-Shorts" (1998) and "Grunt & Groan: The New Fiction Anthology of Work and Sex" (2002). MacCawley was the author of nearly a dozen chapbooks of poetry and fiction, e.g., “Fragile Harvest - Fragile Lives” (1988), “The Deadman’s Dance” (1989), “Last Minute Instructions” (1989), “Voices from Earth: Selected Poems”/ with R. Kurt (1990), “Scars and Other Signatures: Prose Poems” (1991), “Stories for People with Brief Attention Spans: Fictions (1992), “Just Another Asshole: Short Stories” (1994), “Collateral Damage” (2008) and “Sick Lazy Fuck” (2008). He blogged regularly for Sensitive Skin and posted music podcasts.

He died on April 19, 2016.