Hugh Martin, a veteran of the Iraq War, is the author of the poetry collections In Country (BOA Editions, 2018), The Stick Soldiers (BOA Editions, 2013), and So, How Was The War? (Kent State UP, 2010).

 

He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and he was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. Martin has received support and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Prague Summer Program, Yaddo, Ragdale, and Longleaf. He was the winner of the 11th annual A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize from BOA Editions, Ltd., and the inaugural Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award from The Iowa Review. His work has appeared in many venues including The Atlantic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, GQ, The New Republic, and The Sun. 

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Martin graduated from Muskingum University and he has an MFA from Arizona State University. He was the 2014-15 Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College and he received a Ph.D from Ohio University. He is currently an Associate Professor of English at the United States Air Force Academy.