Mark Tompkins divides his time between
entrepreneurship and the arts. The founder of the Aspen Writers’
Network, he serves on the board of the Aspen Writers’ Foundation, a
program of the Aspen Institute. He is a published poet and photographer
whose work is held in the permanent collections of museums in the U.S.
and abroad. Born in Texas of Irish ancestry, Tompkins lives in Boston,
Houston, and Aspen.