Francisco Márquez is a poet from Maracaibo, Venezuela, born in Miami, Florida. A graduate of the MFA program at NYU, his work appears in the Brooklyn Rail, The Yale Review, and the Best American Poetry anthology, among other publications. He has received support from Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, Tin House, and The Poetry Project, as well as Letras Latinas and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He is an Assistant Web Editor at Poets & Writers and lives in Brooklyn, New York.