Mark Forrester

Mark Forrester is a Principal Lecturer in the Professional Writing Program. He has taught literature and composition courses at the University of Maryland since 1994 and has been with the Professional Writing Program since 2004, serving as an Administrative Fellow for the program from 2011 to 2018. Mark's chapter on Anthony Trollope ("Redressing the Empire: Anthony Trollope and British Gender Anxiety in 'The Banks of the Jordan'") was published in the collection Imperial Desire: Dissident Sexualities and Colonial Literature (University of Minnesota Press, 2003). His haiku chapbook The World Disappears was published by Buddha Baby Press in 2021. In addition to appearing in numerous journals, Mark’s haiku and related writings have been published in an assortment of anthologies. Mark was selected as a recipient of the Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars Faculty Mentor Award in 2014 and again in 2020.