Martha Collins’ poems have appeared in many periodicals and anthologies, including The Pushcart Prize X: Best of Small Presses. Her awards include a Bunting Fellowship, an Igram Merrill Fellowship, and NEA Fellowship, and the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award. Her first book of poems, The Catastrophe of Rainbows, was published by Cleveland State in 1985, and she has edited a collecction of essays on Louise Bogan.
She teaches at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, where she established the creative writing program, and lives in Cambridge Massachusetts.