Author

Martin Rock is a poet, editor, and translator living in San Diego. He is the author of Infinite Scroll, selected by Carolyn Forché for the 2025 Tupelo Berkshire Prize, as well as Residuum (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, First Book Prize) and the chapbook Dear Mark (Brooklyn Arts Press). His poetry, translations, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Best American Experimental Writing, Best New Poets, Poem-a-Day, AGNI, Asymptote, Black Warrior Review, Conduit, Copper Nickel, Colorado Review, Georgia Review, Poetry International, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere. Winner of the Donald Barthelme prize in poetry and recipient of multiple writing fellowships, Martin holds an MFA from New York University and a PhD from the University of Houston. He is coeditor of the anthology Other Legacies: Great Unsung American Poets (forthcoming from Wesleyan in 2026). He teaches writing and climate justice at University of California, San Diego, and is codirector of the Unsung Masters Series with Kevin Prufer and Wayne Miller.