Marcia LeBeau

Poet

South Orange, NJ
New Jersey US

Author's Bio

Marcia LeBeau is a multidisciplinary artist. Her debut poetry collection, A Curious Hunger, was published by Broadstone Books in 2024. LeBeau's  poems, essays and reviews have been published in O, The Oprah Magazine, New Ohio Review, Rattle, Painted Bride Quarterly, Moon City Review, and elsewhere. She was a third-place co-winner of the 2023 Allen Ginsberg Award, was longlisted for the 2022 Ralph Angel Prize, and received an honorable mention for the Rattle Poetry Prize. Her work has also received several Pushcart Prize nominations. She has an MFA in poetry from VCFA and is the founder of The Write Space, a co-working and event space for creative writers in The Valley Arts District of Orange, New Jersey.  She lives with her husband and two sons in South Orange, New Jersey. www.marcialebeau.com

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Crack the Spine XIV Anthology (Crack the Spine, 2016)
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Challenges for the Delusional (Jane Street Press, 2012)
Journals: ,
Corium Magazine
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East Jasmine Review
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Frigg Magazine
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Handsome
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Interpoezia
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Juked
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NOON
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Referential Magazine
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Stickman Review
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The Round
Prizes won: 

Allen Ginsberg Award 2023, 3rd prize, Honorable Mention for the 2006 Rattle Poetry Prize, nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize.

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg, One More Thing by B.J. Novak, When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gray, You Are Here by Thich Nhat Hanh

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Trenton, NJ
New Jersey
Raised in: 
Yardley, PA
Pennsylvania
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Last update: Jul 11, 2024