Dawn Lundy Martin

Dawn Lundy Martin is an American poet and essayist. She is the author of four books of poems: Good Stock Strange Blood , winner of the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry; Life in a Box is a Pretty Life , which won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry; DISCIPLINE , A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering , and three limited edition chapbooks. Her nonfiction can be found in n+1 , The New Yorker , Ploughshares , The Believer , and Best American Essays 2019 and 2021 . Martin was the...See more

Dawn Lundy Martin is an American poet and essayist. She is the author of four books of poems: Good Stock Strange Blood , winner of the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry; Life in a Box is a Pretty Life , which won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry; DISCIPLINE , A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering , and three limited edition chapbooks. Her nonfiction can be found in n+1 , The New Yorker , Ploughshares , The Believer , and Best American Essays 2019 and 2021 . Martin was the first person to hold the Toi Derricotte Endowed Chair in English at the University of Pittsburgh where she co-founded and directed the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. Currently she is working on memoir titled When a Person Goes Missing , forthcoming from Pantheon Books. She is Professor and Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College. She lives in New York. See less