Martine Bellen

Martine Bellen (martinebellen.com and www.bookdoctorbellen.com) is the author of nine collections of poetry, including This Amazing Cage of Light: New and Selected (Spuyten Duyvil Press); The Vulnerability of Order (Copper Canyon Press); and Tales of Murasaki (Sun & Moon Press), which was a winner of the National Poetry Series. She has written the libretto for Ovidiana (composer: Greenbaum), Ah! Opera No-Opera (with David Rosenboom), which premiered at REDCAT (www.ah-opera.org) and Moon in the Mirror (co-librettist: Zhang Er and composer: Stephen Dembski). Bellen has received numerous grants, including from the Queens Council of the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and a residency in Bellagio, Italy from the Rockefeller Foundation. Bellen is a contributing editor of the literary journal Conjunctions.