Nate Marshall

Nate Marshall is an award-winning writer, rapper, educator, and editor. He is the author of the poetry collection Finna (One World / Penguin Random House), recognized as one of the best books of 2020 by NPR. His first book, Wild Hundreds (Pitt Poetry Series), was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in poetry. He is co-editor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (Haymarket Books). Marshall also co-wrote the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks with Eve Ewing and records hip-hop as a solo artist and with the group Daily Lyrical Product. He is an assistant professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is from the South Side of Chicago.