Farah Marklevits

Farah Marklevits is a poet, professor, and tutor. She teaches and tutors at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL.

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Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly Review, West Branch; PromptPress; Diagram; forklift, ohio; Literary Mama; The Carolina Quarterly; and other places. She has an M.F.A. from Syracuse University and an M.A.T. from University of Chicago. In 2014, her manuscript was a finalist for Milkweed's Lindquist and Vennum Poetry Prize and a semifinalist for the Crab Orchard First Book Prize.

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She lives in Iowa with her family and commutes over the muddy muscle of the Mississippi River, on the best days by bicycle.