Dawn Lundy Martin

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Dawn Lundy Martin is a poet and essayist. She is the author of four books of poems: Good Stock Strange Blood (Coffee House, 2017), which won the prestigious 2019 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Life in a Box is a Pretty Life (Nightboat Books, 2015); which won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry; DISCIPLINE (Nightboat Books, 2011); A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering (University of Georgia Press, 2007); and three limited edition chapbooks. Most recently, she co-edited with Erica Hunt an anthology, Letters to the Future: BLACK WOMEN / Radical WRITING (Kore Press, 2018). Her nonfiction can be found in The New Yorker, Harper'sn+1, The Believer and Chicago Review. Martin is a Professor of English in The Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. She is also the recipient of a 2018 NEA Grant in Creative Writing: Prose. 

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Best American Essays 2019

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