Marlys WestMarlys West is the winner of V Press LC's Poetry Book Contest, a former Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, a Michener Center Fellow, and a National Endowment of the Arts Fellow in Poetry. Her first book of poems, Notes for a Late Blooming Martyr,was published by the University of Akron Press. Marlys is a writer, teacher, editor, nurse, mother, and a painter of miniature landscapes. Read More Read Less