Marci Vogel is a native of Los Angeles, where she attends the University of Southern California as a Provost Fellow in the PhD Program in Creative Writing and Literature. She has been a visiting poet to l'École des Beaux-Arts in Tours, France, and her translation from French into English of Andrée Chedid's "In the Noon of Contradictions" was awarded the 2014 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. Additional translations, poetry, and essays appear in FIELD, Jacket2, and Plume. Her first full-length collection of poetry was selected for the inaugural Howling Bird Press Poetry Prize and will be published in the summer of 2015. (Photo credit: Peter Figen)