Marie Kressin is a graduate of Hendrix College and earned
her MFA from the University of the South. She has been included in such
publications as Arkansas's Best Emerging Poets, SLANT, The Arkansas
International, Timber, SWWIM, and elsewhere. Marie was selected as Dairy
Hollow’s 2023 Moondancer Fellow and acted as the 23-24 fellow for the
Hellbender Gathering of Poets. Her poem “Dead Bird’s Skull” was nominated for
the 2023 Best of the Net award, and she is the Acquisitions Manager for April
Gloaming Publishing in Nashville. Before accepting her position as an Assistant
Professor in the English Department at Hendrix College, she worked as a
professional writer, focused primarily on public school marketing in the age of
school choice.