Dummies, Shakers, Barkers, Wanderers

Lee Martin is the author of three memoirs and five novels, most recently Late One Night (Dzanc Books, 2016). His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Harper’s, Ms., Creative Nonfiction, The Georgia Review, the Kenyon Review, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and Glimmer Train, as well as in Best American Essays and Best American Mystery Stories. His novel, The Bright Forever, was a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, and he is the winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. He teaches in the MFA Program at The Ohio State University, where he is a College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of English and a past winner of the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.