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, in 1956 and spent most of her childhood in
Lafayette, Louisiana
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. In 1980 she earned a Master of Music in Piano Performance and Literature from the
Eastman School of Music
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. In 1996 she received a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from the
University of New Orleans
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. Her thesis, a collection of poems entitled ''at peril'', passed with distinction. In 2003 she received a PhD in English from
Louisiana State University
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. Her dissertation, ''Radical Dialectics in the Experimental Poetry of Berssenbrugge, Hejinian, Harryman, Weiner, and Scalapino'', won the Lewis P. Simpson Distinguished Dissertation Award. She has received grants for poetry from th Louisiana Division of the Arts the
Canada Council for the Arts
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, the
Ontario Arts Council
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Martin is the author of five full-length poetry collections: ''Blueshift Road'' (Rogue Embryp Press, 2021),''Looms'' (Shearsman Books, 2012) Shearsman Books, 2010),''Codes of Public Sleep'' ref name=BookThug> (Toronto: BookThug, 2007), and ''Sesame Kiosk'' (Elmwood, Conn.: Potes & Poets, 2001). She has also published four chapbooks ''Rogue Embryo'', ''Magnus Loop'', and ''Plastic Heaven''. Her poetry is widely published in journals in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom, and has been translated into Spanish and German.
Martin is also co-editor and co-translator with John P. Clark of two books: ''Anarchy, Geography, Modernity: The Radical Social Thought of Elisée Reclus'' (Lanham, JD:
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, 2004) and ''A Voyage to New Orleans: Anarchist Impressions of the Old South'' (Warner, NH: Glad Day Books, 1999, 2004).Google Books /ref>
From 2006 to 2010, she taught literature and writing at
Ryerson University
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, where she served as an editor for the literary journal ''White Wall'', co-curated the poetry reading series Live Poets Society, and hosted a monthly edition of the literary program ''In Other Words'' on
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.
Martin regularly writes essays about poetry and the visual arts at her blog Rogue Embryo She also maintains a website CamilleMartin.ca about her poetry and collage.
* ''A Voyage to New Orleans: Anarchist Impressions of the Old South'' (co-translator and co-editor, with John P. Clark). Warner, NH: Glad Day Books, 1999, 2004.
* ''The Radical Social Thought of Elisée Reclus'' (co-translator and co-editor, with John P. Clark). Lanham, JD: Lexington Books, 2004.
Anthologies
* Nine from ''Sonnets'' (in Spanish translation). ''La alteración del silencio: Poesía norteamericana reciente'' (''The Alteration of Silence: Recent North American Poetry''). Eds. William Allegrezza and Galo Ghigliotto. Santiago, Chile: Editorial Cuneta, 2010.
* ''Onsets''. The Gig: Toronto, 2004. n.p..
* ''Another South: Experimental Writing in the South''. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 2002. 133.
* ''Other Sticky Valentines''. Lazy Frog Press, 2002. 6.
* ''From a Bend in the River''. New Orleans: Runagate Press, 1998. 126-27.
* ''The Maple Leaf Rag: Fifteenth Anniversary Anthology''. New Orleans: Portals Press, 1994. 115.