
GEOFF MARTIN’s essay "The Isabel Letters" won the 2024 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest from The New Quarterly. His place-based and environmental essays have been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Literary Review of Canada, Boulevard, and The Common, among others. In 2023 he co-founded The Creek Collective in Kitchener, ON, and he is currently completing an essay collection — called Homeground — with funding support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund.