MARCI CALABRETTA CANCIO-BELLO is the author of Hour of the Ox (University of Pittsburgh, 2016), which won the 2015 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and the 2016 Florida Book Awards bronze medal, and was a finalist for the 2017 Milt Kessler Award; and the chapbook Last Train to the Midnight Market (Finishing Line Press, 2013). Together with E. J. Koh, she co-translated The World's Lightest Motorcycle by Korean poet Yi Won (forthcoming, Zephyr Press, 2021). She was the co-founding editor for Print-Oriented Bastards (2011 - 2017) and producer for The Working Poet Radio Show (2015 - 2017). She currently serves as a program coordinator for Miami Book Fair, poetry editor for Hyphen Magazine, and is on the advisory board for the Sundress Academy for the Arts
Cancio-Bello is the recipient of a Kundiman Asian American Poetry Fellowship, a John S. and James L. Knight Fellowship, an American Literary Translators Association Emerging Mentorship Fellowship, and two Academy of American Poets Prizes. She holds degrees from Florida International University (MFA, Creative Writing) and Carnegie Mellon University (BA, English and Creative Writing). Her writing and translations have appeared in The New York Times, the Best American Poetry blog, Best New Poets, Best Small Fictions, The Georgia Review, The Sun, and more.
Cancio-Bello is the recipient of a Kundiman Asian American Poetry Fellowship, a John S. and James L. Knight Fellowship, an American Literary Translators Association Emerging Mentorship Fellowship, and two Academy of American Poets Prizes. She holds degrees from Florida International University (MFA, Creative Writing) and Carnegie Mellon University (BA, English and Creative Writing). Her writing and translations have appeared in The New York Times, the Best American Poetry blog, Best New Poets, Best Small Fictions, The Georgia Review, The Sun, and more.