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Marsh de la O’s latest poetry collection, Antidote for Night (BOA, 2015), was awarded the Isabella Gardner Poetry Prize. Her first book of poetry, Black Hope (New Issues Press, 1997), won the New Issues Press Poetry Prize. Her work also appears in four anthologies, the latest of which, One for the Money: The Sentence as Poetic Form, is forthcoming from Lynx House Press in 2017. The recipient of the 2014 Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Prize, the dA Poetry Prize, and the Ventura Poetry Prize, de la O is the publisher of the poetry journal, Askew.

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