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Born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1934, Mark Strand was raised in the United States and South America. He received his B.F.A. in painting at Yale University. Strand became renowned for his poetry, while still painting throughout his career. He is the author of nine books of poetry including Blizzard of One, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1999. He has written numerous other books, including monographs on William Bailey and Edward Hopper, and Art of the Real: Nine American Figurative Painters. Strand is also known for translations of the poetry of Rafael Alberti and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.
Introduced to Harlan & Weaver by his old friend William Bailey, Strand made four prints with them in 1997-98. He worked from pen and ink drawings of the Blasket Islands off Ireland's southwestern coast, where he owned a house that looked seaward. Strand's etchings are redolent of the moody atmosphere of his subject.
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