Djelloul Marbrook

Djelloul Marbrook’s book of poems, Far from Algiers (Kent State University Press, 2008) won the 2007 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and the 2010 International Book Award in poetry. It has been reviewed in Prairie Schooner, Rattle, Literal Latté, The Linchpin, Boxcar Poetry, and others. His story, “Artists’ Hill,” from an unpublished novel, won the Literal Latté fiction prize in 2008.

A novel, Artemisia’s Wolf, is forthcoming from Prakash Books (India) in 2011. Recent poems have been published by American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Oberon, Orbis, Reed, The Same, The Ledge, Poemeleon, Poets Against the War, Hot Metal Bridge, Istanbul Literary Review, Arabesques, Damazine, and Attic. He worked for many years as a reporter and editor for newspapers including the Providence Journal, Elmira Star-Gazette, Baltimore Sun, Winston-Salem Journal, Washington Star, and others. He lives in New York’s mid-Hudson Valley with his wife, Marilyn.