Martha Collins is a poet and translator from Iowa. She attended Stanford University and the University of Iowa, and she founded the Creative Writing program at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Collins has published many books of poetry, including Blue Front (2006), White Papers (2012), the linked sequenced Night Unto Day and Day Unto Night (2018 & 2014), and most recently Because What Else Could I Do (2019).
Collins has received many awards for her work, including three Pushcart Prizes, fellowships from the NEA and the Bunting Institute, and residency grants from the Women’s International Study Center and the Siena Art Institute, among other honors.
Collins currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Information from Collins’ website.
