Dawn Lundy Martin

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DAWN LUNDY MARTIN is an American poet and essayist. She is the author of four books of poems, including Good Stock Strange Blood, winner of the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry. Her nonfiction can be found in n+I, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Believer, and The Best American Essays 2019. Martin holds the Toi Derricotte Endowed Chair in English at the University of Pittsburgh and is the director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. 

- The Best American Essays 2021 (p. 204). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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.

- The Best American Essays 2019.