J. Michael Martinez is the author of three collections of poetry. Long-listed for the National Book Award, he is a winner of the National Poetry Series and a recipient of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. He has published with various outlets, including PBS, The Poetry Society of America’s New American Poets series, New American Writing, and POETRY magazine. He is the poetry editor at Noemi Press and his writings have been anthologized in Ahsahta Press’ The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral, Rescue Press’ The New Census: 40 American Poets, and Counterpath Press’ Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing. A visiting assistant professor of poetry at St. Lawrence University, Canton, Martinez lives in upstate New York.