Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello
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Books
  • The World's Lightest Motorcycle (Zephyr Press, 2021)
            Translated from Korean by E. J. Koh and Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello
            Finalist for the 2021 Big Other Book Award for Translation

  • Hour of the Ox (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
            Winner of the 2015 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, chosen by Crystal Ann Williams
            Winner of the 2016 Florida Book Awards Bronze Medal
            Finalist for the 2017 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award

​Chapbook
  • Last Train to the Midnight Market (Finishing Line Press, 2013)

Anthologies
  • You Don't Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves, "Origin / Adoption," (Workman Publishing, April 2021)
  • Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment & Healing, "Yellow American Woman" (Beacon Press, 2020)
  • ​The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit, "Invocation," (Orison Books, 2020)
  • Norton’s Introduction to Literature: Florida International University Edition, “Buenos Días, Miami," edited by Dr. Amy Huseby (W. W. Norton, 2019)
  • Ink Knows No Borders: Poems on the Immigrant and Refugee Experience, "Origin / Adoption," (March 2019)
  • Best Small Fictions, "The Sea Urchin," chosen by Amy Hempel, 2017
  • Bettering American Poetry, "From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows," edited by Kaveh Akbar, jay dodd, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Muriel Leung, Camille Rankine, and Michael Wasson, 2016
  • Best New Poets, "Songs of Thirst: Six Sijo," chosen by Tracy K. Smith, 2015

Selected Poetry
  • "Ode to the Japanese Honeybee" in Sierra Magazine (Fall Issue, 26 Sept 2021)
  • "A Working Theory of Eyes" in West Trestle Review ​(Mar/Apr 2021)
  • "Marco Polo in America" in Cherry Tree: A National Literary Journal @ Washington College: "Shade Issue" (Spring 2021)
  • "Even America's Dearest Underdog" and "Forgiveness, Perhaps" in Kenyon Review Online​ (Nov/Dec 2020)
  • "Mythology" in Pleiades, "Korean American Women Feature" (Aug 2020)
  • "Driving Down Old Cutler Road" in Best American Poetry blog feature: "For Summer: Florida Poets" (29 August 2019)
  • "Meditation on Warm Bread, Torn Open" and "Invective Against the Mosquito" in Hong Kong Review (Summer 2019)
  • "Ode to This Small Joy" in Orion (Autumn 2018)
  • "Opening the Palm" in The Massachusetts Review​ (Vol. 59, Issue 4, Winter 2018)
  • "Conversation I Seem to Have With Too Many People" in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, "Poets Resist: 2018 Midterm Elections Special Feature" (6 November 2018)
  • "In the Animal Garden of My Body" in The Academy of American Poets: Poem-A-Day (5 November 2018)
  • "Elegy in Red," "Lucky," and "Poem in Handfuls" in Cordella Magazine​ (August 2018)​
  • "Ghost Mantis" in collaboration with Elizabeth Terhune, Broadsided Press (August 2018)
  • "Most Famous Sheep in the World" in The Ellis Review (19 July 2018)
  • "On Perseverance" in Texas Review (Summer 2018)
  • "Certain Ailments" in The Sun, "Love and Justice" theme guest-edited by Crystal Williams (June 2018)
  • "Triptych for Catalina Ouyang" in Conclusion and Findings (Spring 2018)
  • "Cuckoo's Child" in Small Orange (October 2017)
  • "Poem in Which I Forget Whether I Wanted Anything Else Back Then" in Supporting Women Writers in Miami (SWWIM) Every Day (4 Oct 2017)
  • "Many-Faced Poem" in The New York Times : "America Today, in Vision and Verse" and "How Poems Inspire Pictures" (14 July 2017)
  • "Restitution for the Grandson" and "The Last Supper" in Southern Humanities Review (summer 2017) 
  • "Letter With One Hundred Circles" in The Georgia Review​ (spring 2017)
  • "Self-Portrait at Fifteen with Father" and "Self-Portrait at Eleven with Complicity" in Raleigh Review (spring 2017)
  • "Digging into the City" and "Threshold" in Narrative Northeast (January 2017)
  • "There Is No / Erasing 1948," "Culaccino," and "Poem in Handfuls" in Devil's Lake​ (Fall/Winter 2016)
  • "An Inventory of Race," "Fetish," and "Ghost Organ" in Moledro Magazine (December 2016)
  • "Brother Returns as Sunflower" in The Adroit Journal
  • "Apodyopsis" in Wildness
  • "Returning Home" and "Sijo for Early Spring, Year of the Boar" in Dusie​
  • "Above the Thin Shell of the World" in Split This Rock Poem of the Week (30 September 2016)
  • "Origin / Adoption," "On the Corner of Commodore and Main," and "Many-Faced Poem" in Connotations Press guest-edited by Roy G. Guzman
  • "Brother Returns as Octopus" and "Last Half of a Letter from Home" in Scalawag Magazine
  • "Anti-Elegy" and "Brother Returns as Dragonfly" in Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal
  • "From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows" in HEArt Online, "Let Me Love Me" issue guest-edited by Fatimah Asghar
  • "The Pearl Divers' Daughters," "Remedies for Grieving," and "Oath" in The Margins at the Asian American Writers' Workshop
  • "Generosity," "Fox in Deep Winter," and "Herdboy and Weaver" in So to Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language & Arts
  • "Vase of Ashes" in Tupelo Quarterly (Finalist for Issue 9 Poetry Prize, judged by Tracy K. Smith)
  • "Bonsai" in Narrative Magazine (Finalist for Seventh Annual Poetry Contest)
  • "Old Country, New World" in Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art
  • "Your Mouth is Full of Birds," "Orchard," and "Penance" in Lunch Ticket's Amuse-Bouche 
                ("Penance" nominated for Best New Poets 2015)
  • "Caterpillar Season," "Brother Returns as Chrysanthemum," and "Poem in Furrows" in Thrush Poetry Journal
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Prose
  • "What the River Knows" in The Mom Egg Review (15 June 2020)
  • "A Lobby with Nine Hundred Windows: Notes on Leonard Cohen" in Epiphany: A Literary Journal (Fall/Winter 2018)
  • "In Case of Emergency" in Poetry Northwest, "Self-Articulation and Solidarity: Asian Americans Writing the South" Roundtable guest-edited by Shamala Gallagher (14 Dec 2017)
  • "Nocturne: Year of the Snake" in december magazine (Vol. 28.1, spring 2017)
  • "Buenos días, Miami" in 92nd Street Y #wordswelivein (8 June 2016)
  • "Mamihlapinatapai" in The Grief Diaries​ (reprint) (March 2016)
  • "The Sea Urchin" in Paper Darts (11 Jan 2016)
  • "Knight-funded performance fuses classical Indian dance and Afro-Caribbean poetry" in Knight Foundation Arts Blog (21 Dec 2015)
  • "# Actual Asian Poets: A Celebration of Asian & Asian American Poetry: Suji Kwock Kim" in Literary Hub (6 Oct 2015)
  • "Mamihlapinatapai" in American Letters & Commentary

Translations
  • ​"For the Mirror," "The Mirror Runs Away," "Dark and Bulging TV and Me," and "The Landscape's End" in Chicago Review (Dec 2021)
  • "Self-Portrait" in AGNI ​(Nov 2021)
  • "Night's Playground" and "I Miss My Face" in AAWW The Margins "Transpacific Literary Project: Lullabies Notebook" (Mar 2021)
  • "Time and a Plastic Bag," "Road," "Roots 3," and "Book" in Denver Quarterly (Issue 55.1, 2021)​
  • "Between a Rice Bowl and Shadow," "A Bright Room," and Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick" in Asymptote (Oct 2020)
  • "On the Street" in Poetry Daily (26 April, 2019)
  • "Your Package," "Spring Letter," "Road or Net," and "The Mirror Gnaws on My Face" in Puerto Del Sol (Spring 2019)
  • "Shadow," "On the Street," and "To the Air" in Waxwing (Issue XVII, Spring 2019)

​Editorial
  • Guest Editor, "OUTBREAK: Poets Respond to COVID-19" in COUNTERCLOCK (6 Sept 2020)
  • Guest Editor, "So You Want to Start a Literary Journal" [Part 1] & [Part 2] in The Sundress Blog (26 May 2020)
  • Guest Poetry Editor, "November Adoptee Literature Folio" in Hyphen Magazine (9 Nov 2017)
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Interviews​
  • "Two Fantasy Superstar Writers on Forbidden Magic, Forgotten Lives" and Live Q&A at Miami Book Fair Online (15 Nov 2020)​
  • "Resistance Language: An Interview with Arhm Choi Wild" in Hyphen Magazine (1 May 2020)
  • "How the United States Gaslights Asian Americans" in Electric Literature (16 Apr 2020)
  • "This Graphic Memoir About Adoption Isn't Interested in Comfortable Answers" in Electric Literature (28 Jan 2020) 
  • "Ocean Vuong Refuses to Compromise" in Electric Literature (5 June 2019)
  • "Susan Choi's Novel about Teenage Emotions is Painfully Accurate" in Electric Literature (11 Apr 2019)
  • "Alice Stephens is Blowing Up the Traditional Adoption Story" in Electric Literature (7 Jan 2019)
  • "(Re)Imagining the Great American Novel with an Asian American Cast" in Electric Literature ​(27 June 2018)
  • "Mirrors and Masks: A Discussion by Korean American Female Writers" in Sundress Publications (17 Apr 2017)
  • Interview with Gary Snyder in The Working Poet Radio Show
  • Interview with Molly Peacock in Print-Oriented Bastards
  • Interview with Richard Blanco in Gulf Stream Magazine
  • Interview with Jim Daniels in Gulf Stream Magazine

Reviews
  • The Magical Language of Others by E. J. Koh in World Literature Today (Spring 2020)
  • Monsoon on the Fingers of God by Sasenarine Persaud in World Literature Today (Spring 2019)
  • Not My White Savior by Julayne Lee in World Literature Today (July 2018)
  • Awaiting Your Impossibilities by Donald Morrill in Florida Book Review 
  • Prayer of Confession by Jen Karetnick in Florida Book Review
  • Lucky Bones by Peter Meinke in Florida Book Review
  • The Lame God by M. B. McLatchey in Florida Book Review
  • Systems of Vanishing by Michael Hettich in Florida Book Review
  • Bachelor Pad by Stephem Kampa in Florida Book Review
  • On the Streets of Divine Love: Selected Poems by Barbara Hamby in Florida Book Review
  • The Biscuit Joint by David Kirby in Florida Book Review
  • Finding the Fountain of Youth by Rick Kilby in Florida Book Review
  • Forts of Florida by Rodney Carlisle and Loretta Carlisle in Florida Book Review
  • Dispatches from the Department of Supernatural Explanation by Jesse Millner in Florida Book Review
  • I Live in a Hut by S. E. Smith in Gulf Stream Magazine 
  • Looking for the Gulf Motel by Richard Blanco in Florida Book Review

Collaborations & Productions
  • "We Who Rise from Saltwater, Let's Sing!" A Heroic Sonnet Crown for Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and the Residents of Miami-Dade County, Miami, FL, 2021
  • ​"Vanish" for SWWIM x Womanish Art Exhibit, Miami, FL, 2021
  • "Mirrors, Doors and Prisms: A Guide to Organizing an Asian Pacific Islander American Children's Literature Event in Your Community," Urbanity (31 May, 2021)
  • "Poet vs. Community vs. History" podcast on AAWW Radio: New Asian American Writers & Literature (22 May, 2019)
  • "Ghost Mantis" in collaboration with Elizabeth Terhune for Broadsided Press (August 2018)
  • TEDx Guest Speaker: "How Failure Drives Creativity," TEDxPineCrestSchool, Fort Lauderdale, FL, March 1, 2018
  • "A Working Theory of Eyes" + music playlist, It's Lit with PhDJ, HST on KTUH.org, 90.1FM Honolulu, 91.1 North Shore, and channel 866 on Oceanic Time Warner Cable, Honolulu, HI, October 8, 2017
  • "Many-Faced Poem" audio recording for voiceover, Photoville, "An Evening with the New York Times," Brooklyn, NY, 2017
  • "Your Mouth is Full of Birds" audio recording, Reading Queer: O, Hi There! Poetry Playlist, O, Miami Poetry Festival, Miami, FL, 2015
  • "All the Sheep Have Scattered" in collaboration with Jose Garcia for SWEAT Broadsheet Portfolio 2014
  • "Poem in Handfuls" in collaboration with Ana G. Gonzalez for SWEAT Broadsheet Portfolio 2014
  • "Spin Cycle" in collaboration with Alette Jiminez-Simmons for SWEAT Broadsheet Portfolio 2014

Awards and Distinctions
  • National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose, 2022
  • Poetry Grant Recipient, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, 2021
  • Distinguished Alumni Award, Tompkins Cortland Community College, 2021
  • American Literary Translators Association, Emerging Translator Mentorship Program co-recipient with E. J. Koh under Don Mee Choi, 2017
  • Best Small Fictions anthology, "The Sea Urchin," chosen by Amy Hempel, 2017
  • Finalist for Binghamton University Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award, Hour of the Ox, 2017
  • Bettering American Poetry anthology, "From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows," edited by Kaveh Akbar, jay dodd, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Muriel Leung, Camille Rankine, and Michael Wasson, 2016
  • Bronze medal for Hour of the Ox, Florida Book Awards, 2016
  • Finalist for Annual Poetry Contest, Boston Review, 2016
  • Finalist for Curt Johnson Prose Award in Creative Nonfiction, "Nocturne: Year of the Snake," december magazine, 2016
  • Finalist for Ninth Annual Poetry Prize, "Vase of Ashes," Tupelo Quarterly,​ 2015
  • ​Finalist for Seventh Annual Poetry Contest, "Bonsai," Narrative Magazine, 2015
  • Best New Poets anthology, "Songs of Thirst: Six Sijo," chosen by Tracy K. Smith, 2015
  • Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, for Hour of the Ox, Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award Series, 2015
  • Nominated for Best New Poets, "Penance," Lunch Ticket, 2015
  • Kundiman Asian American Poetry Fellowship, 2014
  • Academy of American Poets Prize, "Old Country, New World," Florida International University, 2014
  • Indiana University Writers' Conference Poetry Fellowship, Indiana University, 2013
  • Finalist for Puerto Del Sol Poetry Contest, "Bonsai," 2013 
  • Honorable Mention, Student Literary Awards, "Bonsai," Florida International University, 2013
  • New York State Summer Writers Institute Poetry Fellowship, Skidmore College, 2012
  • Academy of American Poets Prize, "Postmarked from Hydropolis," Florida International University, 2012
  • Graduate Minority Opportunity Award, Florida International University, 2011
  • John S. and James L. Knight Fellowship in Poetry, Florida International University, 2011 - 2014​
 

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