Mark McWatt (born 29 September 1947)[1] is a Guyanese writer and former professor of English at University of the West Indies.
McWatt was born in Guyana, attending many schools throughout the country due to his father's position as a district officer.
[3] He was founding editor, in 1986, of the Journal of West Indian Literature[1] and published three collections of poetry, the second of which, The Language of Eldorado (1994), was awarded the Guyana Prize.
[4] A review of Suspended Sentences in the Journal of West Indian Literature called it "haunting, magical and profane".
His poems reflect his views of the natural world and the supernatural, including a vampire of Caribbean folklore ("Ol' Higue"), and of marriage and domesticity ("A Man in the House").