Djelloul Marbrook is the author of two poetry books, Far from Algiers (2008, Kent State University Press, winner of the 2007 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and the 2010 International Book Award in poetry) and Brushstrokes and Glances (2010, Deerbrook Editions). His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Orbis (UK), From the Fishouse, Oberon, The Same, Reed, Fledgling Rag, Poets Against the War, Poemeleon, Van Gogh’s Ear Anthology, Atticus Review, Taos Journal of Poetry & Art, and Daylight Burglary, among others. The latest of his four books of fiction is Guest Boy (2012, Mira Publishing House CLC, Leeds, UK), to be followed by the rest of the trilogy in 2014. A retired newspaper editor and U.S. Navy veteran, he lives in New York’s mid-Hudson valley with his wife Marilyn. (photo credit: Jim Smith)

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