Anaïs Deal-Márquez
Anaïs Deal-Márquez is a Mexican American poet based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her writing
explores themes of colonization, migration, and memory. Her work has been published in Poetry, The BreakBeat Poets Vol.4: LatiNEXT (Haymarket, 2020), Up the Staircase Quarterly, Yellow Medicine Review, the Acentos Review, and elsewhere. She won the 2015 Loft Literary Center’s Mentor Series in poetry. Deal-Márquez was a 2023 semifinalist for the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize at Persea Books.