J. Michael Martinez was born in Greeley, Colorado. He earned his BA from the University of Northern Colorado and his MFA from George Mason University. His first collection of poetry, Heredities (2010), received a Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Martinez is the co-founder and co-editor of Breach Press, and poetry editor of NOEMI Press, and has read, lectured, or taught at universities and organizations nationwide including the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference.

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