Marguerite L. Harrold is a poet, writer, teacher, envi­ron­men­tal­ist, and com­mu­ni­ty activist from Chicago. She worked in HIV Prevention, Environmental and Community Health for many years. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago. She is a member of the Community of Writers, an alum of the Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writer’s Conference, and a 2021/2022 Hugo House Fellow. She has worked as an Associate Editor for Prairie Schooner. She is currently serving as the Educational Promotions Manager for the African Poetry Book Fund, and is pursuing her Ph.D. in Creative Writing, with a focus on African and African American Poetics. Her work has been fea­tured in antholo­gies, includ­ing, The Spaces Between Us: Poet­ry, Prose and Art on HIV/AIDS, Anthol­o­gy House: a vision­ary ecol­o­gy project, and The Book of Bad Bet­ties. Her poems and essays have appeared in Obsid­i­an, Chica­go Review, jubi­lat, Anti-Hero­in Chic, RHI­NO, Vinyl Poet­ry and Prose, and oth­er lit­er­ary jour­nals.