by Jim Ross
Bird Woman of the Deep Divide
for the Black Headed Grosbeak
C. I. Marshall, MFA, Creative Writing, Poetry, California State University, Long Beach. B.A. Fine Arts, Mills College. Editor for ARTLIFE Magazine, poems in Verdad, Spillway, Birmingham Poetry Review, Poems In The Waiting Room, UK. Marshall won 2018 Verve International Poetry Festival Contest, UK. Honorable Mention, 2021 Steve Kowit Poetry Prize juried by Dorianne Laux. Marshall’s manuscript, The Locksmith Journeys Into The Afterlife, won the 2022 Frosted Fire First Pamphlet Award, UK and was published in 2023. X: @consuelopoet and Instagram: @ciunderpoet.
Jim Ross jumped into creative pursuits in 2015 after rewarding career in public health research. With graduate degree from Howard University, in eight years he’s published nonfiction, fiction, poetry, photography, hybrid, interviews, and plays in nearly 200 journals on five continents. Photo publications include Alchemy Spoon, Barnstorm, Burningword, Camas, Feral, Phoebe, and Stonecoast. Photo-essays include DASH, Kestrel, Litro, NWW, Paperbark, Pilgrimage Magazine, Sweet, and Typehouse. Recently nominated for Best of the Net in Nonfiction and Art, he also wrote/acted in a one-act play and appeared in a documentary limited series broadcast internationally. Jim’s family splits time between city and mountains.