PEN America Chapter: Miami/South Florida

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello is a transracial adoptee and the author of Hour of the Ox (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016), which won the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, was a Bronze Medal Award Winner in The Florida Book Awards, and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award. Her co-translation of Yi Won’s The World’s Lightest Motorcycle is forthcoming from Zephyr Press in 2021. Her work has been featured in the Academy of American Poets, Best Small Fictions, Electric Literature, Kenyon Review, The New York Times, and has been anthologized in Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment & Healing (Beacon Press, 2020) and Ink Knows No Borders: Poems on the Immigrant and Refugee Experience (Seven Stories Press, 2019). The recipient of fellowships from The American Literary Translators Association and Kundiman, Cancio-Bello holds an MFA in poetry from Florida International University, where she was a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fellow. She is the poetry and children’s/YA program coordinator at Miami Book Fair.

JUBI ARRIOLA-HEADLEY (he/they) is a Blacqueer poet, a storyteller, a first-generation United Statesian, and author of the poetry collection original kink (Sibling Rivalry Press), recipient of the 2021 Housatonic Book Award. He’s a 2018 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, holds an MFA from the University of Miami, and has received support for his work from Millay Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, Lambda Literary, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Jubi and his poems have been featured in Literary Hub, The Rumpus, Beloit Poetry Journal, Nimrod, Southern Humanities Review, Washington Square Review, PBS NewsHour’sBrief But Spectacular, & elsewhere. Jubi lives with his husband in South Florida, on Tequesta and Seminole lands, and his work explores themes of masculinity, vulnerability, rage, tenderness & joy.

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