Welcome, Marisa

Just as we're getting to know her, we'd like you to get to know her too! Here's a little info about the 2008 Gatewood Prize winner, Marisa Crawford:

Marisa Crawford grew up in New York and in Connecticut. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts, where she studied Creative Writing and Women’s Studies, and received her MFA from San Francisco State University. She currently lives in San Francisco where she works as a retail copywriter and has recently joined a synchronized swimming team. Some of her poems have appeared in Invisible Ear, Big Bell, GlitterPony and Parthenon West. Her first full-length manuscript, The Haunted House, is forthcoming from Switchback Books.

Synchronized swimming team = RAD. Welcome aboard!