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Dawn Lundy Martin is an American poet, essayist, and memoirist. She has received the Academy of American Arts and Science's May Sarton Prize for Poetry, a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry, a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Fellowship in Creative Writing for Nonfiction, and was a 2022 United States Artists Fellow. Martin held the inaugural Toi Derricotte Chair in English at
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* ''A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering'' (2007, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize)
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* ''Discipline'' (2011, winner of the Nightboat Books Prize)
* ''Life in a Box is a Pretty Life'' (Nightboat Books, 2015)
* '' Good Stock, Strange Blood'' (2017)
* '' Instructions for The Lovers'' (Nightboat Books, 2024)
Interview with the Rumpus
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University of Pittsburgh
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and was the founding director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. Martin is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College. Martin received the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for her book ''Good Stock, Strange Blood'' published by Coffee House Press
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. ''Instructions for The Lovers'' (2024) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Education and career
Martin earned a BA at theUniversity of Connecticut
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, an MA at San Francisco State University
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, and a PhD at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Martin has taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Montclair State University, The New School, and Bard College.
Works
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* ''A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering'' (2007, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize)
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* ''Discipline'' (2011, winner of the Nightboat Books Prize)
* ''Life in a Box is a Pretty Life'' (Nightboat Books, 2015)
* '' Good Stock, Strange Blood'' (2017)
* '' Instructions for The Lovers'' (Nightboat Books, 2024)
References
External links
Interview with the Rumpus
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