Mark Sargent was born in Olympia, Washington sometime in the past century. He studied at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado in 1975 & 1977. He has lived in Oregon, California and Mexico, among other places, plying his trade as a carpenter, snake oil salesman, street saxophone & combo honk, and bartender. He is a founding member of the Impossibilists collective and the jazz/poetry band Defenestration, director of the films Ellada, Fire, Behold and the Wall. He currently resides in a village in the mountains of southern Greece with his partner Mirella. He bats right, throws left and dances on occasion.