David Tomas Martinez | THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2018 • 7 P.M. • RICHARDSON CHAPEL

David Tomas Martinez’s debut collection of poetry, Hustle, was released in 2014 by
Sarabande Books, winning the New England Book Festival’s prize in poetry, the Devil’s
Kitchen Reading Award and honorable mention in the Antonio Cisneros Del Moral Prize.
He is the 2015 winner of the Verlaine Poetry Prize. Martinez is a Pushcart prize winner,
CantoMundo fellow, a recipient of the Stanley P. Young Fellowship from Broadleaf
and a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. A second collection is
forthcoming from Sarabande Books. Martinez lives in Brooklyn and teaches creative
writing at Columbia University.