Martha Collins

MARTHA COLLINS is a poet, translator, and editor. She has published twelve books of poetry, including Because What Else Could I Do (2019), winner the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award, Admit One: An American Scrapbook (2016), White Papers (2012), and the book-length poem Blue Front (2006), based on a lynching the poet’s father witnessed as a child, winner of an Anisfield-Wolf Award and chosen as one of 25 Books to Remember by the New York Public Library. Her other awards include fellowships from the NEA, the Bunting Institute, the Witter Bynner Foundation, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation, as well as three Pushcart Prizes and a Lannan Foundation residency fellowship. Founder of the creative writing program at UMass-Boston, Collins taught at Oberlin College for ten years, and is now editor-at-large for Oberlin’s FIELD magazine. She has also published four collections of co-translated Vietnamese poetry. https://marthacollinspoet.com.