Douglas A. Martin was born in Virginia and raised in Georgia. He earned a BA in English from the University of Georgia, an MFA in creative writing from the New School, and a PhD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center.
Martin is the author of the poetry collections
My Gradual Demise & Honeysuckle and
Servicing the Salamander and co-author of
The Haiku Year--a project that required him to compose a haiku a day. He has also published a collection of short stories,
They Change the Subject, and a trilogy of prose pieces,
Your Body Figured. His novels include
Outline of My Lover, named an International Book of the Year in
The Times Literary Supplement and a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award;
Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother;
Once You Go Back ; and
Wolf.
