A graduate of the University of Washington, Seattle, MFA program, Rhadha Marcum‘s poems have appeared in FIELD, West Branch, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, Iris, Chelsea, The Bellingham Review, and are forthcoming in Poetry Northwest and other journals. Recent awards include “Fission: 1938″ (awarded 1st prize) and “Dear Tel Aviv” (selected for honorable mention) in the Pacifica Literary Review poetry contest. Bloodline, Rhadha’s first collection, is forthcoming from 3: A Taos Press. She’s led creative writing classes in Seattle, Boulder, and Rome, Italy, and currently teaches at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver.

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