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Dawn Lundy Martin is an American Poet, writer, Activist. She earned her BA at the University of Connecticut, her Masters in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and her PhD on Literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is an instructor for the Language and show more Thinking Program at Bard College. She is co-editor with Vivien Labaton of The Fire This Time. She is the author of Discipline, and A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering. She has received the Academy of American Arts and Science's May Sarton Prize for Poetry. Her poetry collection, Life in a Box is a Pretty Life, won the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Works by Dawn Lundy Martin

The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism (2004) — Editor; Introduction; Afterword — 128 copies
Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life (2015) 38 copies, 1 review
Good Stock Strange Blood (2017) 27 copies
Discipline (2011) 20 copies
Instructions for the Lovers (2024) 11 copies
The Morning Hour (2003) 3 copies

Associated Works

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) — Afterword, some editions — 5,036 copies, 87 reviews
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (2020) — Contributor — 234 copies, 4 reviews
The Best American Essays 2019 (2019) — Contributor — 161 copies, 2 reviews
Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color (2018) — Contributor — 124 copies, 2 reviews
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought (2021) — Contributor — 77 copies
Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology (2022) — Contributor — 36 copies
Make Mine a Double: Why Women Like Us Like to Drink (Or Not) (2011) — Contributor — 23 copies, 12 reviews
What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America (2015) — Contributor — 21 copies
Poetry Magazine Vol. 208 No. 1, April 2016 (2016) — Contributor — 14 copies, 1 review

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Gender
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Nationality
USA
Places of residence
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
East Hampton, New York, USA

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