Dawn Lundy Martin

DAWN LUNDY MARTIN is the author of four books of poems, including, most recently, Good Stock Strange Blood, which won the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Her essays can be found in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, n+1, and the Believer. 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.

- p. 212, The Best American Essays 2019.