Joshua Martin is a PhD student in poetry at Georgia State University. He has published or has poems forthcoming in The Carolina Quarterly,Salamander,Crab Orchard Review, Nashville Review, Raleigh Review, Tupelo Quarterly, The Cortland Review, The Florida Review Online, Borderlands: The Texas Poetry Review, and elsewhere. He was a finalist in the 2015 Jacar Press Chapbook Contest, the 2016 Coal Hill Chapbook Contest, the 2016 Nazim Hikmet Contest, and the 2017 Tupelo Quarterly Contest. He was recently awarded a fellowship to the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing.