Dawn Lundy Martin, an essayist and award-winning poet is author of A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering (2007) and DISCIPLINE (Nightboat Books 2011), which was selected by Fanny Howe for the Nightboat Books Poetry Prize and was a finalist for both Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Lambda Literary Award. Her most recent collection is Life in a Box is a Pretty Life (Nightboat Books 2015). Martin is also a co-founder of the Black Took Collective, an experimental performance art/poetry group of three (with Ronaldo Wilson and Duriel Harris), and a member of HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN? global arts collective. She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.