Francisco Márquez is originally from Venezuela. He received his MFA in poetry from New York University, where he was a Goldwater Fellow. The recipient of grants from the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, and Letras Latinas, his poems have been published in Bennington Review, Narrative, and The Offing, among other publications. He works at the Academy of American Poets and lives in Brooklyn, New York.