Djelloul Marbrook
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Djelloul Marbrook

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Marbrook writes daily at www.facebook.com/djelloul.marbrook.5 about the media, literature, politics and culture and maintains a lively presence on Twitter and Flickr. Now available from Amazon in paper or Kindle are four books of fiction: 'A Warding Circle: New York Stories,' 2017; 'Making Room: Baltimore Stories,' 2017; 'Mean Bastards Making Nice,' 2014, all from Leaky Boot Press (UK); 'and Saraceno,' 2012, Bliss Plot Press. An earlier fiction work, 'Guest Boy,' 2012, Mira Publishing, UK, has been reprinted by Leaky Boot for release Nov. 15, 2018, along with the other two books in the Light Piercing Water trilogy, 'Crowds of One,' Book 2, and 'The Gold Factory,' Book 3. 'Artists Hill,' an excerpt from Book 2, 'Crowds of One,' won the 2008 Literal Latté first prize in fiction. His seven books of poems from Leaky Boot press are 'The Seas Are Dolphins Tears' (for release Oct. 22, 2018); 'Other Risks Include,' 2018; 'Even Now the Embers,' 2018; 'Nothing True Has a Name,' 2018; 'Air Tea with Dolores,' 2017; 'Riding Thermals to Winter Grounds,' 2017; and 'Brash Ice,' 2014. Earlier poetry works are 'Far from Algiers,' Kent State University Press, 2008, winner of the 2007 Stan & Tom Wick Poetry Prize and the 2010 International Book Award in Poetry, and 'Brushstrokes and Glances,' 2010, Deerbrook Editions. Jean-Yves Cotté is translating Brash Ice (poems) and three books of fiction (Mean Bastards Making Nice, A Warding Circle: New York Stories, and Making Room: Baltimore Stories) into French for publication by Gwen Catalá Éd. (France). Fahredin Shehu is translating into Arabic a manuscript tentatively entitled So as Not to Lie in Runes for publication in English and Arabic by Leaky Boot Press, UK. He will accompany his translations with calligraphy. In May 2018 three poems translated into Italian by Angela D’Ambra appeared in Poetarum Silva (online), edited by Anna Maria Curci: “Ambitions larger than Alexander's” (from Nothing True Has a Name), “Providence, 1959” from Even Now the Embers) and “Thirteen naked lines for Susan Aberth” (from Other Risks Include). His short fiction has been published in Orbis (UK), Potomac Review (Maryland), Prima Materia (New York), and New Millennium Writings. His poems have been published in the following anthologies: New Millennium’s 2017 anthology; Red Sky, the 2016 Sable Books anthology about violence against women; Van Gogh's Ear Anthology (France); and Dove Tales, the Writing for Peace anthology in 2015, 2017 and 2018, and in the following journals: American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Coal Hill Review, Omniverse, Galatea Resurrects, Taos Poetry Journal, Onager Editions, Orbis (UK), From the Fishouse, Oberon, The Same, Reed, Fledgling Rag, Pine Hills Review, Le Zaporogue (Denmark), Poets Against the War, Poemeleon, Atticus Review, Deep Water Literary Journal (Ireland), and Daylight Burglary, among others. A U.S. Navy veteran, photographer, sailor and retired newspaper editor and executive, he lives in the mid-Hudson Valley with his wife Marilyn. During a newspaper career including the The Providence Journal (RI), Elmira (NY) Star-Gazette, Baltimore Sun, Winston-Salem Journal, Washington Star, and Media News dailies in Ohio and New Jersey, he won a number of awards for newspaper writing, page design and photography. His career spanned two major transitions in modern journalism, one from hot lead typography to photo-offset and one to the Internet.
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