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Dawn Lundy Martin

1968–

United States

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Dawn Lundy Martin is an American poet and essayist. She is the author of the poetry collections A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering (2007), Discipline (2011), Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life (2015), Good Stock Strange Blood (2017), and Instructions for The Lovers (2024). Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry, and Good Stock Strange Blood won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Instructions for The Lovers was a finalist for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry.

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