Randy Marshall, a Richmond native, serves as senior literary editor of Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts. His poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in Richmond Arts Magazine, New South (formerly Georgia State University Review), cream city review, Diode, and Blackbird. He co-edited (with Mary Flinn, Andrew Miller, and John Venable) The Gazer Within, published in 2001 as part of the University of Michigan Press Poets on Poetry Series. Marshall earned a BA in Spanish and his MFA in poetry from Virginia Commonwealth University where he currently works as an adjunct instructor.