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Marcia LeBeau [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
South Orange, NJ
New Jersey US
Email: 
lebeau.marcia@gmail.com
Bio: 

Marcia LeBeau is a multidisciplinary artist. Her debut poetry collection, A Curious Hunger, was published by Broadstone Books in 2024. LeBeau's  poems, essays and reviews have been published in O, The Oprah Magazine, New Ohio Review, Rattle, Painted Bride Quarterly, Moon City Review, and elsewhere. She was a third-place co-winner of the 2023 Allen Ginsberg Award, was longlisted for the 2022 Ralph Angel Prize, and received an honorable mention for the Rattle Poetry Prize. Her work has also received several Pushcart Prize nominations. She has an MFA in poetry from VCFA and is the founder of The Write Space, a co-working and event space for creative writers in The Valley Arts District of Orange, New Jersey.  She lives with her husband and two sons in South Orange, New Jersey. www.marcialebeau.com [2]

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Born in: 
Trenton, NJ
New Jersey
Raised in: 
Yardley, PA
Pennsylvania
Website: 
https://www.marcialebeau.com [3]
Prizes won: 

Allen Ginsberg Award 2023, 3rd prize, Honorable Mention for the 2006 Rattle Poetry Prize, nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize.

Education: 
Vermont College of Fine Arts–Writing
What I'm reading now: 
The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg
One More Thing by B.J. Novak
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gray
You Are Here by Thich Nhat Hanh
Prefers to work with: 
Any

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[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/marcia_lebeau [2] http://www.marcialebeau.com [3] https://www.marcialebeau.com