Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello

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Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello is an American poet, radio show producer, and professor. [1] [2] She is the author of Hour of the Ox, [3] which won the 2015 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. [4] [5] [6]

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Education

Cancio-Bello received her MFA in creative writing in 2014 from Florida International University [7] and her BA in English in 2011 from Carnegie Mellon University. [8]

Awards and honors

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