C. I. Marshall has an MFA in Creative Writing from California State University, Long Beach. Marshall was poetry editor for ARTLIFE Magazine and poems have appeared in Spillway, RipRap, The Packinghouse Review, Beyond the Lyric Moment: Poetry Inspired by Workshops with David St. John, ELKE, Redheaded Stepchild and Kakalak. A Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts and Weymouth Center for the Arts Writer-In-Residence, Marshall’s poem, “Myself As A Playboy Bunny” won the 2018 International Verve Poetry Festival Competition, Birmingham, UK.