ELIZABETH MARINO

Elizabeth Marino was born to a Puerto Rican couple in Chicago's old Hyde Park barrio, and was raised in an Italian/German American family in the southwest Chicago suburbs, famed for musicians and gangsters. She holds an MA from the University of Illinois at Chicago's Writers Program and a BA from Barat College (with English literature and history at Oxford University). She works as an itinerant adjunct instructor of English. She is also an actor/director, working under her stage (and birth) name of "Micaela Mastierra".

Her poetry has appeared in the anthologies Between the Heart and the Land/Entre el corezon y la tierra: Latina poets in the Midwest (Chicago: MARCH/Abrazo Press, 2001),Dark Waters Speaking (Chicago: La Onda Negra Press, forthcoming), Breaking Mirrors/Raw Images (4:30 Poets) and College Poetry Review, the magazines: Moon Journal, After Hours, Strong Coffee, Nit & Wit, Envisage (UK), the NAB Gallery Pamphlet Series, and she has appeared on the spoken word CD Elements of Life, Love & Action with the improve troupe She Laughs. She has published creative non-fiction, interviews, and articles in The Chicago Journal and S.H.E.. She published ner first poem at the age of fifteen in the Illinois English Bulletin.

She has an excellent book of poetry published by Moon Journal press called Debris. She is currently shopping for a publisher to reprint this book.