John Martin

John Martin is a writer from Aurora, Colorado, whose interest in storytelling began early: he wrote his first poem in third grade and his first story in fifth grade. He later earned a BA in English and an MA in Technical Writing, and has spent much of his working life writing while continuing to develop his creative work.

According to his Poets & Writers directory profile, his publications include work in journals such as The Common, Eclectica, and Per Contra. The same profile notes that he received the McKinney Award for poetry in 1981 and placed second in the Per Contra Short Fiction Award in 2007.

He has said that his first novel remains tucked away on his hard drive while he works on a second, suggesting a writer who keeps refining his art over time. His listed favorite authors include John Cheever, Barbara Pym, William Maxwell, Shirley Hazzard, and Don DeLillo, which gives a sense of the literary tradition he reads and writes in.