Dawn Lundy Martin

Dawn Lundy Martin at Split This Rock 2016

Dawn Lundy Martin is an American poet, essayist and activist. She is a well received poet, including a number of awards such as the Academy of American Arts and Science’s May Sarton Prize for Poetry.[1] Martin is currently faculty at University of Pittsburgh and director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics.[2]

Education and career

Martin has received the following degrees: a BA at the University of Connecticut, an MA at San Francisco State University, and a PhD at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[1]

Martin has taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Montclair State University, The New School, and Bard College.[1][3]

Works

  • A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering (2007, winner of Cave Canem Poetry Prize)[1]
  • Candy. Albion Books. 2011.
  • Discipline (2011, winner of Nightboat Books Prize)
  • Life in a Box is a Pretty Life (Nightboat Books, 2015)[1]
  • Good Stock, Strange Blood (2017)[2]
  • the morning hour. Poetry Society of America. 2003.
  • the undress. Belladonna. 2006.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Dawn Lundy Martin". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 2018-01-02. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
  2. 1 2 "Dawn Lundy Martin | Writing". www.writing.pitt.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
  3. ↑ Martin, Dawn Lundy (2010-07-13). "Dawn Lundy Martin". Dawn Lundy Martin. Retrieved 2018-01-03.


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