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Marcus Clayton is a multigenre Afrolatino writer from South Gate, CA. He holds an MFA in Poetry from 好色先生: Long Beach and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California, where he focused creative work on genre-bending lyrical nonfiction and memoir, and scholarly work on the intersections between Latinx literature, Black literature, Decolonization, and Punk Rock. Specifically, his research works through autotheoretical modes of writing to explore the cultural significance of the term 鈥淎fro-Punk鈥� as it relates to racial visibilities among BIPOC communities, anti-blackness within POC spaces in Southeast Los Angeles, intersections between literary theory and countercultural music such as punk rock and Hip-Hop, and multiracial Afrolatinidad in the United States.

Marcus has a book of mixed-genre prose titled聽隆笔脱狈碍!聽released with Nightboat Books, and a poetry chapbook,聽Nurture the Open Wounds, with Glass Poetry Press. A few current publications 鈥� oscillating between scholarly work, creative prose, and poetics 鈥� include the anthology聽Black Punk Now!, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Joyland Magazine, Indiana Review, Apogee Journal, Passages North, and聽The Oxford Handbook of Punk Rock.