Mark Dickinson grew up in Yorkshire and Cleveland, and lives in Westray, one of the North Isles, with his partner and two children. He has written poetry since 17, when he had a chance encounter with a book whilst living in a small fishing village in southern Morocco. He studied at Hull, Palacký and the Centre for Alternative Technology, but has never strayed too far from Oceans and Seas. He practises plant based input farming, simplistic living and sustainable building. His poetry engages with the entanglements of harm through aspects of place.