Dawn Lundy Martin

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Dawn Lundy Martin

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 [1] , 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 University of Pittsburgh and was the founding director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. [2] 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. [3]

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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

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Dawn Lundy Martin". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 2018-01-02. Retrieved 2018-01-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. 1 2 "Dawn Lundy Martin | Writing". www.writing.pitt.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
  3. ↑ "Winners & Finalists". Tufts Poetry Awards. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  4. ↑ Martin, Dawn Lundy (2010-07-13). "Dawn Lundy Martin". Dawn Lundy Martin. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
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