Marco Melfi (he/him) joined the Edmonton Poetry Festival Board in 2019. He received The Fiddlehead’s 2021 Ralph Gustafson Prize and has had poems published in Arc Poetry Magazine, EVENT, The Literary Review of Canada, PRISM, The New Quarterly, and Prairie Fire. His debut poetry collection, Routine Maintenance, was published in 2025 by Gaspereau Press. He lives in Edmonton on Treaty 6 Territory.