Jean-Mark Sens was born in France and was educated in France and Belgium. He spent most of his teens and college years in Paris and surrounding region. He earned a Bachelor (Baccalauréat) in Economics and Social Studies after attending an experimental school in Paris, L'Ecole et La Ville. After diverse occupations and inoccupations, and living in England for a short while and traveling, he returned to Paris and double-majored in English and Business Economics. He translated with a friend, Pierre Mrejen, Hart Crane's poetry into French, and published a bilingual edition of Key West in Paris with Edition Alidades, 1988 and translations of "Voyages" in a journal. He also lived and taught French in Edinburgh at the time. Sens completed a Master in English from Paris VII University and went to Florida in where he taught at U.S.
F. in Tampa. After returning to Paris where he taught and worked as a night clerk in the Quartier Latin, he received a scholarship to complete his studies in American Literature at the University of Southern Mississippi where he first taught French and then was admitted in the English Department where he worked on a MA and then a Ph. D. in Poetry Writing. After graduating in 1991, he took a teaching position as Assistant Professor of English and French at a small black college, Rust College, in North Mississippi, and two years later transferred to the University of Mississippi where he taught composition and literature in the English Department for four years as Instructor. In the Fall 2000, he moved to Charleston, S.C.
where he studies Culinary Arts at Johnson & Wales, worked in a few restaurants, including Robert's of Charleston with Chef Robert Dickson, and taught while continuing to write. Admitted at the University of South Carolina with an assistantship for a degree in Library Science, he have lived in Columbia since 2002. In May 2003, he was selected to read my work at the Piccolo Spoleto in Charleston for the Sundown Poetry Series. He currently works at USC Medical Library and for Partnership Among South Carolina Academic Libraries (PASCAL) and while continuing to write, read, and all the good things of life, he is also looking for a librarian position in an academic library.