Marci Vogel is a California-born poet, translator, and educator. She is the author of At the Border of Wilshire & Nobody (Howling Bird Press Poetry Prize); Death and Other Holidays (deGroot/Miami Book Fair Prize for the Novella), published in French as La Mort et autres jours de fête; and XENO» GLOSSIA: An Illuminated Study of Christine de Pizan (Parlor Press’ Illuminations Series in American Poetics). Her work has received support from the Community of Writers, the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, and the Camargo Foundation. The recipient of a Willis Barnstone Prize, her commentary series on translation and poetics is archived at Jacket2. Vogel holds a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Southern California, where she served as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities and University of the Future.