About the Poet:

Marcella Durand‘s latest books are A Winter Triangle, which received the Poetic Justice Institute Prize in 2024 and was published this fall by Fordham University Press, and The Light Factory, a collaboration with her mother, painter Suzan Frecon, published by Insurance Editions 2025 with support from David Zwirner Gallery. She is the co-editor with Jennifer Firestone of Other Influences: The Untold History of Avant-Garde Feminist Poetry, a collection of essays by experimental women poets on their own self-identified contexts and lineages, published by MIT Press in Fall 2024. Other collections include To husband is to tender (Black Square Editions, 2021), The Prospect (Delete Press, 2020), and a book-length translation from French of Michèle Métail, Earth’s Horizons/Les horizons du sol (Black Square Editions, 2020). She is also the 2021 recipient of the C.D. Wright Award in Poetry from the Foundation of Contemporary Art and the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing fellow in poetics and poetic practice at the University of Pennsylvania 2010-2011. She lives in New York City, where she is active in local ecological and land-use issues, including the fight to save East River Park and ban the use of artificial turf in city parks.