Dawn Lundy Martin is an American poet, essayist and activist. She has received a number of awards such as the Academy of American Arts and Science's May Sarton Prize for Poetry. Martin is currently faculty at University of Pittsburgh and director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. Martin received the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for her book Good Stock, Strange Blood published by Coffee House Press. Education and career Martin earned a BA at the University of Connecticut, an MA at San Francisco State University, and a PhD at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Martin has taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Montclair State University, The New School, and Bard College. Works A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering (2007, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize) Discipline (2011, winner of the Nightboat Books Prize) Life in a Box is a Pretty Life (Nightboat Books, 2015) Good Stock, Strange Blood (2017) References External links Interview with the Rumpus Interview with the Library of Congress Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century American poets American women poets University of Pittsburgh faculty Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry winners American LGBT poets 21st-century American women writers University of Connecticut alumni American women academics 21st-century LGBT people American lesbian writers