Mark Turpin is an American poet.

Turpin is the son of a Presbyterian minister. He has spent 25 years working construction and building houses. He graduated from Boston University at age 47, with a master's degree.^{[citation needed]}

He lives and works in Berkeley, California.

His work has appeared in The Paris Review,^[1] The Threepenny Review,^[2] Ploughshares,^[3] and Slate.

• 1997 Whiting Award
• 2004 Ploughshares John C. Zacharis First Book Award for Hammer

• "Jobsite Wind", Slate
• "Waiting for Lumber", Slate, July 16, 2002
• "The Furrow", Tarpaulin Sky, Winter 2002
• "The Box"; "Pickwork"; "Shithouse"; "In Winter"; "Will Turpin b. 1987"; "Photograph From Antietam", Boston Review, 19.1
• "The Box", Online News Hour, September 2, 2002
• Hammer. Sarabande Books. 2003. ISBN 978-1-889330-86-0.
• Susan Aizenberg, Mark Turpin, Suzanne Qualls (1997). Take three 2. Graywolf Press. ISBN 978-1-55597-254-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

• "Before Groundbreak". Ploughshares. Winter 1992–1993. Archived from the original on November 4, 2007.
• "Photograph From Antietam". Ploughshares. Winter 1992–1993. Archived from the original on November 4, 2007.

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation