Randy Marshall’s poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in Richmond Arts Magazine, New South, cream city review, diode, and Blackbird. With Mary Flinn, Andrew Miller, and John Venable, he edited The Gazer Within (University of Michigan Press, 2001). He earned his MFA in poetry from Virginia Commonwealth University, where he currently serves as an adjunct instructor, teaching poetry writing and advanced composition. Marshall is also a writing instructor at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, where he holds workshops in beginning poetry, multi-genre writing, and the lyric essay.  

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