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Poet Bio: Marjorie Skelly's cross-genre book, The Unpublished Poet: On Not Giving Up on Your Dream, was endorsed by former Indiana Poet Laureate Norbert Krapf and published by In Extenso Press in 2015. It consists of essays, short stories, and poems. She has won first place awards from Poets and Patrons, the Jo-Anne Hirshfield Poetry Memorial Contest, and the Palatine Public Library. Twice she reached semi-finalist status for the Word Works Washington Prize for a poetry book, and she once reached finalist status in the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Slam in Chicago.

One of her short stories was given finalist status three times with Glimmer Train, and another short story was given an honorable mention twice, also with Glimmer Train. Her short story Pass the Candied Yams won second place in a National Organization for Women Short Story Contest. Marjorie has taught writing at several universities, poetry writing (revision) at Harold Washington Library, and poetry and fiction writing at Eisenhower Library, all in the Chicago-land area. She lives with her husband Jim and her daughter Maggie in Chicago.

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