blackbird spring 2002 vol.1 no. 1

POETRY

MARLYS WEST

Marlys West received her MFA from the James A. Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. The University of Akron Press published her book, Notes for a Late-Blooming Martyr: Poems, in 1999. She was a 2002-2003 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, where she wrote the bulk of a novel, Missing Mr. Bird, and edited a new collection of poems, The Vanity that Comes with Opposable Thumbs, which is available to an interested publisher. This year West received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in poetry.