Nate Marshall is an award-winning author and editor. His most recent book, Finna, was recognized as one of the best books of the year by NPR and The New York Public Library. Finna was awarded the Heartland Booksellers Award and was an All-Pikes Peak Read Selection for the Pikes Peak Library System. Marshall was the recipient of the 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library Foundation and was inducted into the NewCity Lit50 Hall of Fame. He has read his work internationally, including as a featured writer at the Singapore Writers Festival and Australia’s National Youth Poetry Slam. Marshall holds an honorary doctorate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is an assistant professor in the creative writing program at The University of Wisconsin and lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with his wife, the writer Alison C. Rollins, and their very cute daughter.
Sharp, lyrical poems celebrating the Black vernacular--its influence on pop culture, its necessity for familial survival, its rite in storytelling and in creating the safety found only within its intimacy
