Nate Marshall

Nate Marshall is an award-winning author, editor, poet, playwright, performer, educator, speaker, and rapper. His book, Wild Hundreds, was honored with the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's award for Poetry Book of the Year and The Great Lakes College Association's New Writer Award. He is also an editor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop. Marshall is a member of The Dark Noise Collective and co-directs (with Eve Ewing) Crescendo Literary. He is an assistant professor of English at Colorado College. He is from the South Side of Chicago and completed his MFA in creative writing at the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers' Program. He holds a BA in English and African American diaspora studies from Vanderbilt University. Marshall has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Poetry Foundation, and the University of Michigan.