Francisco Márquez is a poet from Maracaibo, Venezuela, born in Miami, FL. His work has been featured in Narrative, the Yale Review, the Adroit Journal, The Slowdown podcast, and the Best American Poetry anthology. He has received support from the Tin House Writers Workshop, the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, The Poetry Project, the UCross Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he was a 2019-2020 Poetry Fellow. He is an editorial fellow at the Library of America.
While at MacDowell, Márquez worked on his second poetry collection. This involved revising and completing poems that began before arriving at MacDowell, as well as generating new work, including a seventeen-page sonnet cycle that will serve as a centerpiece to the collection. He also worked on completing two personal essays and performed research for a future work by reading extensively. One of the poems from this collection will be published in Poetry London.
