Marian Urquilla’s creative work explores the intersections of exile, spirituality, and identity. Her poems have appeared in The Acentos Review, The Indianapolis Review, West Trestle, and the Journal of Latina Critical Feminism. She is the winner of Midway Journal’s 2024 Flash Prose and Poetry Contest, a finalist for the 2024 Stephen Dunn Prize at Solstice Literary Magazine, and a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. She is an alum of VONA, the Kearny Street Interdisciplinary Writers Lab, the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, and the Highlights Foundation’s Whole Novel Workshop. She lives with her wife in California’s East Bay.