Francisco Márquez is a poet from Maracaibo, Venezuela, born in Miami, Florida. A graduate of the MFA program at NYU, his work appears in The Brooklyn Rail, The Yale Review, and Best American Poetry 2021, among other publications. He has received support from Tin House, The Poetry Project, and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He is Assistant Web Editor at Poets & Writers and lives in Brooklyn, New York.