Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and is a Canto Mundo fellow, a Zell post-graduate fellow and the only undocumented student to graduate from the University of Michigan’s MFA program. He’s a Pushcart nominee and has received fellowships from the Squaw Writer’s Workshop, and the Vermont Studio Center. He teaches summers as a resident artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida and recent work can be found in Jubilat, New England Review, and Drunken Boat, among others. With CD Wright, his translations of the Mexican Poet Marcelo Uribe are forthcoming.

Prize anthology mentions

Pushcart (Poetry) 2015*

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