Martin Hyatt

Martin Hyatt's newest novel is Beautiful Gravity (forthcoming Fall, 2016).

Martin was born just outside of New Orleans. He attended Goddard College and Eugene Lang College of The New School. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing and is the recipient of an Edward F. Albee Writing Fellowship and The New School Chapbook Award for fiction. His stories have been published in Lodestar Quarterly, The Electric Literature Blog, Blithe House Quarterly, and several award-winning anthologies. His first novel, A Scarecrow's Bible, published in 2006 to wide acclaim, won the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award and was a finalist for the Violet Quill Award, the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Debut Fiction, and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Men's Fiction. It was an alternate featured selection of the Doubleday/Insight Out Book Club and was also named a Stonewall Honor Book finalist by the American Library Association. New York magazine declared Martin to be a literary "Star of Tomorrow." Martin currently teaches Creative Writing at various colleges in the New York City area. He is currently completing a memoir entitled Greyhound Country and lives in Manhattan with his husband, physicist Massimo Porrati.