Lee Martin

Lee Martin is the Pulitzer Prize Finalist author of The Bright Forever, and five other novels, including Yours, Jean, Late One Night, Break the Skin, River of Heaven, and Quakertown; the memoirs, Such a Life, From Our House, and Turning Bones; and the short story collections, The Mutual UFO Network and The Least You Need to Know. He is also the author of Telling Stories: The Craft of Narrative and the Writing Life. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in such places as Harper’s, Ms., Creative Nonfiction, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and Glimmer Train. He is the winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. He teaches in the MFA Program at The Ohio State University, where he was the winner of the 2006 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.