Carl Marcum is a Chicano poet from Tucson, Arizona. He is the author of the collections, Cue Lazarus, and A Camera Obscura, winner of the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in the anthologies, The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry, and Latinix Rising: An Anthology of Latinx Science Fiction & Fantasy. He received his MFA from The University of Arizona and was Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Marcum has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Taos Writers Conference. He served as a Canto Mundo Fellow from 2011-2015. Marcum taught for many years at DePaul University in Chicago, and now lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.