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] Instructions for The Lovers (2024) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Dawn Lundy Martin
Martin at AWP 2025
Occupation	Poet

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

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  Dawn Lundy Martin

  the morning hour. Poetry Society of America. 2003.
• the undress. Belladonna. 2006.
• A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering (2007, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize)^[1]
• Candy. Albion Books. 2011.
• Discipline (2011, winner of the Nightboat Books Prize)
• Life in a Box is a Pretty Life (Nightboat Books, 2015)^[1]
• Good Stock, Strange Blood (2017)^[2]
• Instructions for The Lovers (Nightboat Books, 2024)