:: Dionisio D. Martínez was born in Cuba in 1956. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Whiting Foundation. His book Bad Alchemy was one of twenty-five titles included in the New York Public Library's 1995 "Books to Remember" list, and History as a Second Language won the Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including The Norton Anthology of Poetry, The Best American Poetry (1992 and 1994), The Jazz Poetry Anthology, Hard Choices: An Iowa Review Reader, In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal, The New Republic, The American Poetry Review, Tampa Review, The Georgia Review, and Kenyon Review. In 1999, Martínez was invited by United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky to read at the Library of Congress, where he also recorded his poems for the Library's archives; in 2000 he was on the faculty of Writers @ Work (Utah); in 2001 he was an artist-in-residence at the Seaside Institute (Seaside, FL) and participated in Prairie Schooner magazine's 75th Anniversary Celebration (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln). Martínez conducts writing workshops for the YMCA National Writer's Voice and his essays and reviews appear in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Miami Herald, and the St. Petersburg Times.

:: Listen to Dionisio D. Martínez read from Climbing Back and from Bad Alchemy