• The Anchorage (1999), which won the Lambda Literary Award.
• two fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
• The Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University
• the Writers at Work Fellowship

"Mark Wunderlich's first book, The Anchorage, is a vigorous, necessary attempt to make our words catch up with our changing world: 'This is America--beetles clustered with the harvest, dust roads trundling off at perfect angles, and signs proclaiming unbearable roadside attractions.' The poems are extravagantly -- perhaps I should say fiercely -- autobiographical."