Geoff Martin
BIO
Biography
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 his first book Channel Migration: Moving with an Urban Creek (co-written with Sydney Lancaster) is coming out with PS Guelph in Spring 2027. His essay collection, finished with funding support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund, is currently out on submission.
ADDRESS
City: Kitchener,
Province/Territory: Ontario
EMAIL
geoff@wheelhousewriting.org
GENRE
adult nonfiction, essays, creative nonfiction
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
The Isabel Letters
Publisher
The New Quarterly
Year
2024, Issue 172
Title
"Land Matters"
Publisher
insideWaterloo
Year
2022
Title
"Roadways"
Publisher
The New Quarterly No. 159
Year
2021
Title
"Birdland" in Being Home: An Essay Anthology
Publisher
Madville Press
Year
2021
Title
"Baked Clay"
Publisher
The Common: A Modern Sense of Place
Year
2019
Title
"The Fake MFA Syllabus"
Publisher
Creative Nonfiction Magazine, No. 72
Year
2019
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest
Publication
The New Quarterly, Issue 172
Year
2024
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
Programs & Interests
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