Marc-Anthony Valle

Marc-Anthony Valle is a Pushcart-nominated mixed-black poet from the Pacific Northwest. He received his MFA in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis. Marc-Anthony was selected as the runner-up by Monica Ferrell for Tupelo Press’ 2024 Snowbound Chapbook Award, and a scholarship participant to DISQUIET International's 2026 Luso-American workshop in Lisbon. His work is interested in the permeable barrier between eros and elegy, the natural world, and the consequences of purity, in all of its forms. He lives in St. Louis, where he reads for The Adroit Journal. His work has been published or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, swamp pink, Poetry Northwest, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Journal, Notre Dame Review, The Hopkins Review, Bat City Review,  Frozen Sea, and elsewhere.