Marcella Durand

Marcella Durand is a contemporary American poet and the author of several books and chapbooks including Traffic & Weather (Futurepoem Books), AREA, The Anatomy of Oil, Western Capital Rhapsodies, Lapsus Linguae, and City of Ports.

She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, a writing residency at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and a PEN/NYSCA translation grant. She has spoken on the intersection between ecology and poetry at venues such as the Small Press Traffic in San Francisco, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Naropa University, and Kelly Writers House. Her essays have been published in Ecopoetics, 26, and are forthcoming in the )((eco (lang)(uage(reader)). Her eco-collaboration with poet Tina Darragh was published by Little Red Leaves in 2009.

She received her MFA in poetry from Brooklyn College where she studied with L.S. Asekoff and Allen Ginsberg. From 2002-2007, she worked as an assistant to poet John Ashbery, and was the program coordinator (1997-2000) and newsletter editor (2003-2005) for the St. Mark's Poetry Project. She has done collaborations with visual artists Karoline Schleh, Hillary Mushkin and husband Richard O'Russa, and has translated sections from French poet Michele Metail's Les Horizons du Sol/Earth's Horizons and The Route of Five Feet. Raised in New York City, her parents are painter Suzan Frecon and painter and printer Michel Durand. Currently she lives with her husband and son Ismael in New York City.