The Kratz Center for Creative Writing at Goucher college is proud to present poets Bobby Elliott, author of The Same Man, and Nate Marshall, author of Finna and Wild Hundreds. Reading and Q+A at 7pm in JR227 (Soper Room). 

Nate Marshall is the author of FINNA (One World, 2020) and Wild Hundreds (University of Pittsburgh, 2015). He is an editor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (Haymarket Books, 2015). He is also the author of the audio drama Bruh Rabbit & The Fantastic Telling of Remington Ellis, Esq. and co-author (with Eve L. Ewing) of the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. Marshall is an assistant professor in the creative writing program at The University of Wisconsin-Madison. Originally from the South Side of Chicago, he now lives in Madison, WI with his wife, the writer Alison C. Rollins, and their very cute daughter.

Bobby Elliott is an award-winning poet and teacher. His debut collection of poems, The Same Man, was selected by Nate Marshall as the winner of the 2025 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in September. He has taught at James Madison University and the University of Virginia, where he won the Kahn Prize for his work with undergraduate writers. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from The Cortland Review, Diode, Poet Lore, Poetry Northwest, RHINO and elsewhere.