Dr. Steven Clark Cunningham was born in Denver, Colorado.  After graduating from Creighton University with majors in chemistry and Spanish, he attended medical school at George Washington University in Washington, DC.  Having finished his residency in general surgery at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Maryland, and fellowships in oncology  research and in surgery of the liver and pancreas at Johns Hopkins University, he is currently working as a Specialist in Liver and Pancreas Surgery at Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, MD. 

He has served as a contributing editor of Maryland Poetry Review, and his poems have appeared in Maryland Poetry Review, The New Physician (winner of literary arts contest), Chimeras, WordHouse: Baltimore’s Literary Calendar, the anthology Function At The Junction #2 (Electric Press, 1997), the cookbook Pasta Poetics (ed. Matt Hohner, 1997), and the anthology Poems for Chromosomes (Watermark Press, 1998).

Dinosaur Name Poems is his first full-length book of children's poetry.  This bilingual (English/Spanihs) book of poetry, art, and information was the winner of two 2009 Moonbeam Awards: in the Children’s Poetry and the Spanish Language categories.