Radha Marcum (’22) is a poet, writer, editor, and teacher with a focus on the intersection of the environment, culture, and personal history. She is the recipient of the 2023 Washington Prize for her forthcoming collection, Pine Soot Tendon Bone (The Word Works, 2024). Marcum’s first poetry collection, Bloodline (3: A Taos Press, 2017), won the New Mexico Book Award in Poetry in 2018. Her poetry has been featured in journals such as North American Review, FIELD, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, The Bennington Review, and others. Marcum has received accolades for individual works, including 1st prize in Pacifica Literary Review’s poetry contest, judged by Linda Bierds, and a 2023 Folio Award for excellence in journalism. Her collections have been finalists for the FIELD Poetry Prize, the Alice James Beatrice Hawley Award, the Akron Poetry Prize, and the Persea Books Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Prize.