Dawn Lundy Martin

Instructions for The Lovers was a finalist for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry.

• Name — Dawn Lundy Martin • Occupation — * Poet • essayist • educator • Education — * University of Connecticut (BA) • San Francisco State University (MA) • University of Massachusetts Amherst (PhD) • Notable Works — * Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life • Good Stock Strange Blood • Instructions for The Lovers • Awards — * Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry • Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Martin earned a BA from the University of Connecticut, an MA in creative writing from San Francisco State University, and a PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has taught at Montclair State University, The New School, the University of Pittsburgh, and Bard College. Martin coedited, with Vivien Labaton, The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism (2004), and she co-founded the Third Wave Foundation. At the University of Pittsburgh, she helped found the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics, which emerged from a 2015 planning session involving Martin, Terrance Hayes, and Yona Harvey. She is Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College. Martin received the 2008 May Sarton Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a 2018 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in prose, and a 2022 United States Artists Fellowship.

• The Morning Hour (Poetry Society of America, 2003). • The Undress (Belladonna*). • Candy (Albion Books, 2011).

• The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism (with Vivien Labaton, Anchor Books, 2004) • Letters to the Future: BLACK WOMEN / Radical WRITING (with Erica Hunt, Kore Press, 2018)