About Me
Marcus Elman is a writer who lives with his wife in Venice Beach,
California. He wandered and worked overseas for a decade,
comparing and learning about many cultures. He mostly has been
employed as a dancer, teacher, and businessman and for many
years has worked with the elder-sage population as a yoga/
fitness therapist.
Marcus is curious about energy, how things work and get
repaired, the idea of redemption, and our human capacity to love
—in toto: human potential.*
His chapbook, Because the World Is Spinning from MacQ is now available.
His poetry has been published most recently in MacQueen’s
Quinterly (2024 Issues 22,23, 24 and 25). In January
2023, Cultural Daily featured his poems “The Prosciutto
Ambulance” and “The Offering.” His poem “The Crossing” was
shortlisted for the Into The Void 2020 Poetry Prize. And his poem
“The Boulevards of Los Angeles” received an honorable mention
in Beyond Baroque’s 2017 annual poetry prize, was published
in Cultural Weekly (September 2018), and was reprinted in the
textbook Method &Mystery: A Research-Based Guide to
Teaching Poetry by TreshaFaye Haefner (The Poetry Salon, 2019).
Marcus attempts to speak French as much as is allowed.
Photo by Maät Elman