Julia Paganelli Marín is a poet in Fayetteville, Arkansas, with more than six years of teaching experience. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas and received the Open Mouth poetry residency in March 2022. She is a recipient of the Lily Peter Fellowship (2015) and the runner up for Poets & Writers’ Maureen Egan Award (2018). Her editorial work has included reading and selection of work for The Arkansas International and Up North Lit.

In addition to her chapbook, Blush Less (Finishing Line Press, 2015), her work has been published in The Journal, Zone 3, Passages North, The Comstock Review, BOAAT Journal and more.