Fred Marchant is the author of three books of poetry: Tipping Point, which won the 1993
Washington Prize, House on Water, House in Air: New and Selected Poems (Dedalus Press, Dublin,
Ireland) and Full Moon Boat (Graywolf Press). A new collection, The Looking House, is forthcoming
from Graywolf Press in 2009. He has also co-translated (with Nguyen Ba Chung) From a Corner of
My Yard by the Vietnamese poet Tran Dang Khoa. He has also edited and written an introduction
for Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford, 1937-1947. Marchant is the
Director of the Creative Program and The Poetry Center at Suffolk University in Boston, MA.
He is also a long-time teaching affiliate of The William Joiner Center for the Study of War
and Social Consequences at UMass-Boston. During the Viet Nam war he was one of the first Marine
officers ever to be discharged honorably as a conscientious objector.
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