Marlys West is an American poet and writer.
[1] She received her MFA from the James A. Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin, and was a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University.
She also received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Her first book of poems titled Notes for a Late-Blooming Martyr was published by the University of Akron Press.
She has had work published in many literary journals and magazines;[2] her work has also appeared in the anthology series The Best American Poetry.