MARCI CALABRETTA CANCIO-BELLO is the author of Hour of the Ox (University of Pittsburgh, 2016), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and finalist for the Florida Book Awards in Poetry and Milt Kessler Award, and the chapbook Last Train to the Midnight Market (Finishing Line Press, 2013). She and E. J. Koh co-translated The World's Lightest Motorcycle by Yi Won (Zephyr Press, 2021). She currently serves as a program coordinator for Miami Book Fair, co-director for PEN America Miami/South Florida Chapter, co-director for the Adoptee Literary Festival, and is a founding member of The Starlings Collective.
Cancio-Bello is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Kundiman, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the American Literary Translators Association, and two Academy of American Poets Prizes. Her writing and translations have been featured in the Academy of American Poets "Poem-A-Day," Best Small Fictions, Catapult, Electric Literature, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review Online, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, and more.
Cancio-Bello is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Kundiman, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the American Literary Translators Association, and two Academy of American Poets Prizes. Her writing and translations have been featured in the Academy of American Poets "Poem-A-Day," Best Small Fictions, Catapult, Electric Literature, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review Online, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, and more.