Jude Marx is a writer and educator born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Jude is the winner of a 2025 Maine Literary Award for poetry and the grand prize winner of the 2024 Trans Poetics Archive contest. Their chapbook, The River the Night Remembers, won the 2025 Maine Chapbook Contest and is forthcoming November 2026 through the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance and Pink Eraser Press.  Jude's poems appear in The Stonecoast Review, new words {press}, Neon & Smoke, and elsewhere.  Jude has over a decade of experience teaching creative writing and English to young people and holds a Masters of Science in Education for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from the University of Southern Maine. Jude is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at Rutgers University-Newark.

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