Poet, fiction writer, and editor Martha Ronk was born in Cleveland and earned a BA at Wellesley College and a Ph.D. at Yale University. With wry humor and formal curiosity, Ronk tests the limits of syntax and a literary convention in her work. She is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Silences (2019), Ocular Proof (2016); Transfer of Qualities (2013), a National Book Award long-list selection; Partially Kept (2012); Vertigo (2007), chosen by C.D. Wright for the National Poetry Series; and In a landscape of having to repeat (2004), winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award.

Ronk’s prose includes Glass Grapes: And Other Stories (2008), and Displeasures of the Table: memoir as caricature (2001). Her work has been featured in American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry (2009) and Lyric Postmodernisms: An Anthology of Contemporary Innovative Poetries (2008). Her additional honors include the PIP Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Poetry and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Source: PoetryFoundation.org