Douglas A. Martin

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Douglas A. Martin
Born (1973-09-29) September 29, 1973 (age 50)
Occupation
  • Poet
  • novelist
  • short story writer
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Georgia (BA)
The New School (MFA)
CUNY Graduate Center (PhD)
Website
www.douglasamartin.com//

Douglas A. Martin (born September 29, 1973) is an American poet, a novelist and a short story writer.

Biography

He was raised in

performance 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 the

post-modern writer Kathy Acker, was awarded The Irving Howe Prize for Best Dissertation Involving Politics and Literature in 2007.[2] They teach at Wesleyan University.[3][4]

Work

Outline of My Lover was selected as an International Book of the Year in

Colm Toibin and adapted in part by The Forsythe Company, along with "Irony Is Not Enough: Essay On My Life As Catherine Deneuve (2nd draft)" by Anne Carson, for the multimedia production "Kammer/Kammer".[5]

Martin's work since Outline of My Lover includes Branwell, a novel based on the life of

Lambda Literary Award
in 2010.

Acker (2017), a book-length essay, was reviewed widely and favorably.[10][11][12][13]

Selected bibliography

Miscellanea

  • Martin was the subject of an early film by director Lance Bangs, Evil Queernieval Vs. Ga. Square Mall.[14][circular reference]
  • Martin played a part in director Michael Robinson's 2012 film, Circle in the Sand.[15]

References

  1. ^ "Bookslut | An Interview with Douglas A. Martin". www.bookslut.com.
  2. ^ "martin, Writing at Wesleyan - Wesleyan University". www.wesleyan.edu.
  3. ^ ""Acker" Is a Lyrical Examination of a Unique Writer".
  4. ^ "Mapping Selves". Reverberations.
  5. ^ Rocco, Claudia La (April 30, 2006). "Love Hurts/Love Hurts". The New York Times.
  6. ^ "UW Press - : They Change The Subject, Douglas A. Martin".
  7. ^ "The Haiku Year". www.goodreads.com.
  8. ^ "An Interview with Douglas A. Martin | Rain Taxi". 10 August 2016.
  9. ^ "Once You Go Back". sevenstories.com.
  10. ^ "Acker".
  11. ^ ""To Lie Is to Try": Two Books on Kathy Acker by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore - BOMB Magazine". bombmagazine.org.
  12. ^ Rooney, Kathleen (April 27, 2018). "Three Literary Critics Who Engage With Their Subjects, Unconventionally". The New York Times.
  13. ^ "Ackerphilia | VQR Online". www.vqronline.org.
  14. ^ Lance Bangs#Video
  15. ^ "Circle in the Sand | Video Data Bank". www.vdb.org.

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