Martha Silano

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Martha Silano has authored five full-length collections of poetry, including Gravity Assist (Saturnalia Books, 2019), The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception, winner of the 2010 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize and a Washington State Book Award finalist, and Reckless Lovely (Saturnalia Books, 2014). She is also co-editor, with Kelli Russell Agodon, of The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice (Two Sylvias Press 2013). In 2015, Two Sylvias Press released a redesigned and expanded second edition of her award-winning poetry collection, What the Truth Tastes Like.

Martha's poems have appeared in many magazines, including Poetry, Poetry Daily, Paris Review, AGNI, North American Review, American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere. Her poem "Love" appears in The Best American Poetry 2009. Martha teaches at Bellevue College and Hugo House.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Poetry 2009

Pushcart (Poetry) 2016*

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