Chris Martin

Chris Martin is the author of three books of poetry, most recently The Falling Down Dance (Coffee House, 2015), winner of a Midwest Independent Booksellers Choice Award. He is the recipient of grants from the Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and Minnesota State Arts Board. In 2015 he cofounded Unrestricted Interest, an organization dedicated to helping neurodivergent learners transform their lives though writing. In 2016 he cofounded Society, a publishing concern at the intersection of poetry and politics. He teaches at Hamline University and Carleton College.