Author / Illustrator

  • Marc Harshman’s WOMAN IN RED ANORAK, Blue Lynx Prize winner, was published in 2018 by Lynx House Press. His previous collection, BELIEVE WHAT YOU CAN, Vandalia/West Virginia University Press won the Weatherford Award. His fourteenth children’s book, FALLINGWATER, with co-author Anna Smucker, was published by Roaring Brook/Macmillan. He is co-winner of the 2019 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award and his Thanksgiving poem, “Dispatch from the Mountain State,” was recently printed in the New York Times. Poems have been anthologized by Kent State University, the University of Iowa, University of Georgia, and the University of Arizona. His newest title, THE SHADOW TESTIMONIES, is forthcoming from Salmon Press, Ireland. Appointed in 2012, he is the seventh poet laureate of West Virginia.