Djelloul Marbrook

Djelloul Marbrook, also known as Del Mabrouk (August 12, 1934 – November 23, 2024), was an American-Algerian contemporary poet, writer, and photographer.

Biography Djelloul Marbrook was born on August 12, 1934, in Algiers, Algeria, to parents Juanita Guccione (née Rice) and Ben Aissa ben Mabrouk. He was raised by his extended family, primarily by his grandmother and aunts. and an editor for the Elmira Star-Gazette, Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel, The Washington Star, winner of the 2007 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, and the 2010 International Book Award in poetry, explores the poet's feelings of not belonging to family or country.

Brash Ice (2014, Leaky Boot Press)Mean Bastards Making Nice (2014, Leaky Book Press)Riding Thermals to Winter Grounds (2017, Leaky Boot Press)A Warding Circle: New York stories (2017, Leaky Boot Press)Air Tea with Dolores (2017, Leaky Boot Press)Making Room: Baltimore stories (2017, Leaky Boot Press)Nothing True Has a Name (2017, Leaky Boot Press)Even Now the Embers (2017, Leaky Boot Press)Other Risks Include (2017, Leaky Boot Press)The Seas Are Dolphin's Tears, (2018 Leaky Boot Press) Light Piercing Water trilogy (2018, Leaky Boot Press) Book 1, Guest BoyBook 2, Crowds of OneBook 3, The Gold FactorySongs in the O of Not (2019, Leaky Boot Press)The Loneliness of Shape (2019, Leaky Boot Press)Suffer the Children: Sailing Her Navel (poems) & Ludilon (novella) (2019, Leaky Boot Press)Lying Like Presidents, New & Selected Poems, 2001–2019 (2020, Leaky Boot Press)The Yellow Suitcase, New Poems | | Pierian Springs Press, 2025

Awards Far from Algiers (2008, Kent State University Press) won the 2007 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and the 2010 International Book Award in poetry. "Artists Hill", an excerpt from Crowds of One, Book 2 in the Guest Boy trilogy, won the 2008 Literal Latté'' fiction prize.