Chris Martin is a teaching-writer at Unrestricted Interest and has worked with unconventional students, ASD students and twice-exceptional students for over a decade, specializing in creative writing and executive function. He earned his BA in English at Carleton College; his MA in Poetry, Performance, and Education from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study; and his MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His first collection of poems, American Music (Copper Canyon Press, 2007), was selected by C. D. Wright for the Hayden Carruth Prize. Becoming Weather, his second collection, was published by Coffee House Press in 2011 and he was named one of Poetry Society of America’s New American Poets. His third collection, The Falling Down Dance (Coffee House Press, 2015), is a chronicle of time, love, failure and early fatherhood.
