Douglas A. Martin | |
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| Born | (1973-09-29)September 29, 1973 (age 51) |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Georgia (BA) The New School (MFA) CUNY Graduate Center (PhD) |
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Douglas A. Martin (born September 29, 1973) is an American poet, a novelist and a short story writer.
He was raised inWarner Robins, Georgia and moved toNew York City in 1998. Beginning as aperformance poet and dramatist, Martin then shifted to the novel form and has concentrated creative energies here since his first full-length prose work,Outline of My Lover.[1]
Martin holds a BA from theUniversity of Georgia, an MFA fromThe New School, and aPh.D. in English from theCUNY Graduate Center. His doctoral dissertation, which dealt with the work ofpost-modern writerKathy Acker, was awarded TheIrving Howe Prize for Best Dissertation Involving Politics and Literature in 2007.[2] They teach atWesleyan University.[3][4]
Outline of My Lover was selected as an International Book of the Year inThe Times Literary Supplement byColm Toibin and adapted in part byThe Forsythe Company, along with "Irony Is Not Enough: Essay On My Life AsCatherine Deneuve (2nd draft)" byAnne Carson, for the multimedia production "Kammer/Kammer".[5]
Martin's work sinceOutline of My Lover includesBranwell, a novel based on the life ofBranwell Brontë, andThey Change The Subject, a collection of stories.[6]The Haiku Year was co-authored withMichael Stipe,Tom Gilroy,Jim McKay,Grant Lee Phillips, and others.[7] A volume of poetry,In the Time of Assignments was published bySoft Skull Press in 2008. This work was followed by an experimental narrative,Your Body Figured (Nightboat books), which deals with aspects of the lives of the artistsBalthus,Francis Bacon and his muse and model George Dyer, and the poetHart Crane.[8] In 2009, Martin published a third novel,Once You Go Back, withSeven Stories Press.[9] A semi-autobiographical novel,Once You Go Back describes growing up in a strained working-class household transplanted to the South, and was a Finalist for theLambda Literary Award in 2010.
Acker (2017), a book-length essay, was reviewed widely and favorably.[10][11][12][13]
