Anaïs Deal-Márquez

Anaïs Deal-Márquez is a writer and artist based in Minneapolis. Her work looks at migration, home, and memory. She has been published in Poetry, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Yellow Medicine Review, The Acentos Review, Huizache, Pleiades, and more. Deal-Márquez was a semifinalist for the 2026 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in poetry. She has received fellowships and residencies from the Loft Mentor Series, Mirrors & Windows, VONA, and Tofte Lake Center.