Martha Silano

Martha Silano is the author of five books of poetry: Gravity Assist (Saturnalia Books, 2019) What the Truth Tastes Like (Two Sylvias Press, 2015), Reckless Lovely (Saturnalia Books, 2014), Saturnalia Books Prize Winner The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception (2011), and Blue Positive (2006). Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Paris Review, North American Review, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review Online, Prairie Schooner, The Cincinnati Review, AGNI, and in over three dozen print anthologies, including Best American Poetry 2009. Martha is also co-author, with Kelli Russell Agodon, of The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice. She teaches at Bellevue College, near her home in Seattle, Washington.