Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello is the author of  Hour of the Ox (University of Pittsburgh, 2016), which won the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and was a finalist for the Florida Book Award and Milt Kessler Award. She is also co-translator of The World's Lightest Motorcycle (Zephyr Press, 2021), by Korean poet Yi Won. She is co-director for Adoptee Literary Festival and PEN America Miami/South Florida Chapter, and serves as a program coordinator for Miami Book Fair. She has received fellowships  from the National Endowment for the Arts, Kundiman, the Knight Foundation, the American Literary Translators Association, among others. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Kenyon Review Online, The Best New Poets, Best Small Fictions, The Georgia Review, and Narrative, among other places. 

Website: www.marcicalabretta.com

Twitter Username: @marcicalabretta

Publications

• The World's Lightest Motorcycle , Zephyr Press (November 16, 2021)
• Hour of the Ox , University of Pittsburgh Press (November 11, 2016)
• Last Train to the Midnight Market , Finishing Line Press (2013)

Awards

• 2016 Florida Book Award Bronze Medal for Poetry(2017)
• 2015 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry(2015)
• Kundiman Asian-American Poetry Fellowship(2014)
• Academy of American Poets Prize(2014)
• Academy of American Poets Prize(2012)
• John S. and James L. Knight Fellowship(2011)

Employment

• Program Coordinator at Miami Book Fair (September 2014 - )

Degrees

• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Florida International University (May 2014)
• Bachelor of Arts in English & Creative Writing from Florida International University (May 2011)

Genres of Interest

Creative nonfiction, Poetry