Mark Truscott

{{Short description|Canadian poet}}

Mark Truscott (born 1970) is a Toronto poet. He was born in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. He attended several public schools and Nelson High School in Burlington, Ontario and went on for a B.A. and M.A. in English at McMaster University in Hamilton.

Truscott is the grandson of Olympian Alda Wilson.

His first collection, Said Like Reeds or Things (Coach House Books, 2004), was shortlisted for a ReLit Award and received an Alcuin Society Book Design Awards citation for Darren Wershler-Henry’s design. His third collection, Branches, won the inaugural Nelson Ball Prize.{{Cite web|date=2020-12-15|title=Mark Truscott wins inaugural Nelson Ball Prize for Canadian poetry|url=https://quillandquire.com/omni/mark-truscott-wins-inaugural-nelson-ball-prize-for-canadian-poetry/|access-date=2020-12-16|website=Quill and Quire|language=en}} Poems appear in the anthologies Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry (Mercury Press, 2005) and Pissing Ice: An Anthology of 'New' Canadian Poets (BookThug, 2004). He co-edited the small magazine BafterC with Jay MillAr and curated the Test Reading Series.{{cite web|last=Rogers|first=Damian|title=Long goodbye: Mark Truscott ends "volume one" of his rigorous reading series|url=http://www.eyeweekly.com/books/article/39663|work=Eye Weekly|accessdate=September 7, 2011}}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}