Chrissy Martin, PhD Student in Creative Writing - Poetry

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Address: 4th Floor Morrill Hall
E-mail: christine.martin@okstate.edu
Website: www.chrissy-martin.com

MA, Creative Writing - Poetry, Columbia College Chicago
BA, English Literature, The University of Akron

Areas of Interest & Expertise

  • Poetry
  • Poetics of the Body
  • Literature of Disability and Chronic Illness
  • Literature of Mental Physical Illness

Courses Taught

  • ENGL 2513: Introduction to Creative Writing
  • ENGL 1113: Composition I
  • ENGL 1213: Composition II

Publications

  • “If I’m Being Honest, I’m Still Upset About the American Girl Doll Thing,” Harpur Palate, 2021
  • “Exclamation” and “Like Wild,” New South, 2020
  • “Upon Discovering There Is Too Much,” Crab Creek Review, 2019
  • “Apple Scab,” Carve Magazine, 2019
  •  “Some Like it Hot,” Tinderbox Poetry Journal, 2019
  • “Salt & Crumb" and “Ovenburn,” Mortar Magazine, 2019
  • “Ode to My Father’s Dead Tooth,” The Southern Review, 2019
  •  “What They Say About Pastor’s Kids,” The Comstock Review, 2019
  •  “The Museum of _______”, “Oh, Marina, ” and “The Weinstein Effect, ” Barzakh Magazine, 2018
  •  “Pasta Night Without Diagnosis,” Atticus Review, 2018
  • “If You Are Worn in Your Grief,” Cardiff Review, 2018
  • “Lessons in Comfort,” Breakwater Review, 2018
  • “Winner’s Circle,” Boiler Journal, 2018
  • “We Had That Conversation” and “do you have the time?” |tap| lit mag, 2018
  • “Grooming,” Sooth Swarm, 2018
  • “A Room Like This” Anastamos, 2017
  • "Sanctuary,” Deluge, 2017
  • “When I Say It’s Time To Go,” Bad Pony, 2017
  • “Rained In,” Minute Magazine, 2017
  • "Ditch Daisies” and “Weather Break,” WINDOW, 2017
  • “The Unnamed” and “The Unnamed,” Spilled Milk Magazine, 2017
  •  “Combination Pizza,” Horn & Ivory, 2017
  • “Poem While Eating Questionable Leftovers” Lit.cat, 2017
  • “The Gospel of Helping” and “Instructions for Absolution” MISTRESS, 2017
  • "For My Grandmother, Who Kept His Last Name" Voicemail Poems, 2017
  •  “Banana Bread” (b)OINK, 2017
  • “Goodmorning,” Amazon Day One, 2016
  • “Flexible” LUMINA2016
  • “Refined” and “The Fairer Sex (and the City)” Small Po[r]tions Print2016
  •  “To Know You Better, ” Small Po[r]tions Online2016

Awards and Recognition

  • Robberson Summer Research Fellowship at Oklahoma State University, 2021
  • Clinton C. Keeler Fellowship in English Award for an Outstanding PhD Student, 2021
  • Second Place, Academy of American Poets, 2021
  • Third Place. Marye Lynn Cummings Scholarship in Creative Writing – Poetry, 2021
  • Nomination for Best New Poets by Carve Magazine, 2021
  • Paul Klemp Renaissance Studies Scholarship, 2021
  • Second Place, Academy of American Poets Prize, Judged by Tyler Mills, 2021
  • Second Place, Marye Lynn Cummings Scholarship in Creative Writing Poetry, 2020 
  • Semi-Finalist, 2019 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize, chosen by Jericho Brown, 2019
  • Nomination for Best New Poets by Atticus Review, 2019
  • Semi-Finalist, Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize, Persea Books, 2019
  • Finalist for the 2018 Comstock Review Poetry Contest chosen by Maggie Smith, 2018
  • Third Place, Academy of American Poets Scholarship, Judged by Chen Chen, 2018
  • Third Place, Marye Lynn Cummings Endowed Scholarship- Poetry, 2018
  • Honorable Mention, Atticus Review Poetry Contest, Judged by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, 2018