Marci Vogel is the author of Death and Other Holidays, winner of the Miami Book Fair/de Groot Prize for the Novella; and At the Border of Wilshire & Nobody, winner of the Howling Bird Press Poetry Prize. Her poetry, prose, translations, and cross-genre inventions appear in Jacket2, VIDA, Seneca Review, Plume, and other publications. A first-generation college student, Vogel earned a PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Southern California, where she currently serves as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities. She attended the Community of Writers in 2005 and 2017 as the recipient of a Hillary Gravendyk Memorial Scholarship. www.marcivogel.com