Radha Marcum
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Radha Marcum is the granddaughter of a Manhattan Project physicist who worked in Los Alamos during World War II. Much about her grandfather's work remains classified, even to his family. Her poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Chelsea, Bellingham Review, Pleiades, Field, and other journals, and her manuscript Oppenheimer's Dog was most recently a finalist for the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize from Persea Books. She is the editor-in-chief of Delicious Living magazine and lives in Colorado with her husband and two children.
Winning Entry: News, Fire Balloons (1944), In the Making
Contest Won: War Poetry Contest 2010, Finalist