Dawn Lundy Martin is a poet and essayist. She is the author of four books of poems including Good Stock Strange Blood (Coffee House Press), which was the winner of the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for Poetry. Her nonfiction can be found in The New Yorker, Harper’s, n+1, The Believer, and Best American Essays 2019. Martin is a Professor of English in the writing program at the University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics.