Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello is the author of Hour of the Ox (University of Pittsburgh, 2016), which won the AWP Donald Hall Prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Award and Florida Book Award for Poetry. She and E. J. Koh co-translated The World's Lightest Motorcycle by Yi Won (Zephyr Press, 2021), which was awarded the Translation Grand Prize from the Literature Translation Institute of Korea. She received a Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose from the National Endowment for the Arts (2022), as well as fellowships from Kundiman, the Knight Foundation, and the American Literary Translators Association, and her work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets, Catapult, Kenyon Review Online, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, and more. In 2021 she co-founded the Adoptee Literary Festival and PEN America Miami/South Florida Chapter. She is a founding member of the Starlings Collective and the programs & marketing supervisor for Miami Book Fair.