Dawn Lundy Martin is an American poet, essayist and activist. She has received 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] Martin received the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for her book Good Stock, Strange Blood published by Coffee House Press.^[3]

Education and career

Martin earned 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][4]

Works

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