Gregory Martin
Gregory Martin is the author of MOUNTAIN CITY, a memoir of the life of a town of thirty-three people in remote northeastern Nevada, which received a Washington State Book Award, was named a New York Times Notable Book, one of ten Larger-than-Life Memoirs by NPR's Morning Edition, and is referred to by some people in Mountain City as "the book." Martin's second book, a memoir STORIES FOR BOYS, is forthcoming from Hawthorne Books in Fall 2012.
Martin's work has appeared in The Sun, The Kenyon Review, Creative Nonfiction, Storyquarterly, The Writer, Witness, and elsewhere. For his teaching, Martin has received the Keleher Award for Outstanding Assistant Professor, the Gunter Starkey Award for Teaching Excellence from the University of New Mexico's College of Arts and Sciences, and the University of New Mexico Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award.
Martin is an Associate Professor of English and serves as Director of the Combined BA/MD Degree Program.
