Djelloul Marbrook

Author's Bio

His poetry is forthcoming in Reed (San Jose, CA), and The Ledge (Bellport, NY) and recently appeared in American Poetry Review (Philadelphia) and Oberon (Stony Brook, NY). His fiction has also been published by OnlineOriginals (UK), Potomac Review (Rockville MD), Prima Materia (NY), and Breakfast All Day (UK). He is a U.S. Navy veteran and a retired newspaper editor (Providence Journal, Elmira Star-Gazette, Baltimore Sun, Washington Star, among others). He lives in the mid-Hudson Valley with his wife Marilyn.

Publications and Prizes

Books:

Far from Algiers (Kent State University Press, 2008)

Journals:

Aesthetica Magazine U.K., American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Damazine, Hot Metal Bridge, Istanbul Literary Review, Oberon, Poemeleon, Poets Against the War, Reed Magazine, The Ledge, The Same

Prizes:

Djelloul Marbrook’s book of poems, Far from Algiers (Kent State University Press, 2008) was selected by Toi Derricotte for the 2007 Stan and Tom Wick Prize. His short story, “Artists' Hill,” won the Literal Latté fiction prize in 2008.

Djelloul Marbrook Resume

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum, Poems by C.P. Cavafy, Odyssey by Homer

Favorite Authors:

William Yeats, W.H. Auden, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, John Clare, Mark Helprin, A.S. Byatt, Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov

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Listing last updated: July 13, 2010

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Identifies as:

Other

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Algiers, Algeria

Raised in:

Brooklyn and Manhattan, NY

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