Christopher Martin

Christopher Martin is author of This Gladdening Light: An Ecology of Fatherhood and Faith, which won the Will D. Campbell Award in Creative Nonfiction. Praised by Janisse Ray as “honest, gritty, and transcendent,” This Gladdening Light, Martin’s debut, is forthcoming with Mercer University Press in June. Martin’s work has appeared in publications across the country, including American Public Media’s On Being, Fourth River, McSweeney’s, Poecology, Shambhala Sun, Still: The Journal, and Thrush Poetry Journal. His poems have been anthologized in Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry, The World is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins, Stone, River, Sky: An Anthology of Georgia Poems, and The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. V: Georgia. A contributing editor at New Southerner, the author of three poetry chapbooks, and a recipient of the George Scarbrough Prize for Poetry, Martin teaches English at Kennesaw State University and creative nonfiction for the Appalachian Young Writers Workshop. He lives with his wife and their two young children in northwest Georgia, between the Allatoona Range and Kennesaw Mountain. [www.christopher-martin.net]