Bio
Dawn Lundy Martin earned a PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is now a professor at the University of Pittsburg where she also serves as the director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics.
In addition to poetry, Martin is known for her activism and prose essays. She is co-founder of the Third Wave Foundation in New York, a grant-making organization led by young women and trans youth, focusing on social justice activism.
In 1999, Martin co-founded the Black Took Collective, a group of young black poets who explore experimental poetics using critical race, gender, and sexuality theory.
Selected Bibliography
- the morning hour (Poetry Society of America, 2003)
- the undress (Belladonna, 2006)
- A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering (U of Georgia P, 2007). Winner of Cave Canem Poetry Prize)
- Candy (Albion Books, 2011)
- Discipline (Nightboat Books, 2011). Winner of Nightboat Books Prize
- Life in a Box is a Pretty Life (Nightboat Books, 2015)
- Good Stock, Strange Blood (2017)
- Recommended Works:
- Our Wandering
- [Dear one, the sea…]
- The American middle class…
- What Does Somethingness Afford?
- When a Person Goes Missing