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Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello is the author of Hour of the Ox (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016), winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. She and E. J. Koh translated Yi Won’s The World’s Lightest Motorcycle (Zephyr Press, 2021), which won the 2022 Translation Grand Prize from the Literature Translation Institute of Korea. Cancio-Bello has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Knight Foundation, and American Literary Translators Association, and her work has appeared in Kenyon Review Online, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, and more. She is a member of the Starlings Collective, co-founder of the Adoptee Literary Festival, and a program manager for Miami Book Fair.

poetry

The World’s Lightest Motorcycle – Zephyr Press

Hour of the Ox – University of Pittsburgh Press

Forgiveness, Perhaps – The Slowdown

In the Animal Garden of My Body – poets.org

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