Marci Vogel is the author of DEATH AND OTHER HOLIDAYS (Melville House, 2018), winner of the inaugural Miami Book Fair/de Groot Prize, and AT THE BORDER OF WILSHIRE & NOBODY (Howling Bird Press, 2015), winner of the inaugural Howling Bird Press Poetry Prize. Her poetry, prose, translations, and cross-genre inventions appear in Jacket2, VIDA, Seneca Review, Plume, and many other publications. She has received a Willis Barnstone Translation Prize, a Hillary Gravendyk Memorial Scholarship from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and residencies at North Street Collective and Chalk Hill. A first-generation college student, Vogel earned a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Southern California, where she is a Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.