Radha Marcum

Radha Marcum is a poet, writer, editor, and teacher who writes about the environment, culture, and personal history, with a focus on the American West. Her debut poetry collection, Bloodline, was published by 3: A Taos Press in 2017 and examines her grandfather's work on the first atomic bombs at Los Alamos. It won the New Mexico Book Award in Poetry in 2018. Her second collection, Pine Soot Tendon Bone, won the 2023 Washington Prize and was published by The Word Works in 2024. She has also worked as a prose writer on health and environment topics for several organizations. She lives in Colorado and founded the Poet to Poet interview series.