Marion Starling Boyer

Marion Starling Boyer’s Ice Hours was selected for the 2021 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize and was released January 2023 from Michigan State University Press. She is the author of The Sea Was Never Far, The Clock of the Long Now, and a two time winner of Grayson Books' Poetry Chapbook Competition, winning in 2014 for Composing the Rain, and again in 2023 for What Word for This. Her work has been nominated for Pushcarts, the Lenore Marshall Award, and the “Best of the Net.” A professor emerita of Communication for Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Boyer served on the executive board for Kalamazoo’s Poetry Festival, the planning committee for Lit Youngstown’s Literary Festival and conducts workshops for Lit Youngstown and Lit Cleveland. She lives in Twinsburg, Ohio famous for its world's record gathering of twins every summer.