J. Michael Martinez received the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets for his first book, Heredities.  His latest, In the Garden of the Bridehouse, is available from the U. of Arizona Press.  He is the Poetry Editor of NOEMI Press and his writings are anthologized in Ahsahta Press’s The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral, Rescue Press’s The New Census: 40 American Poets, and Counterpath Press’s Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing. He lives in Denver where is finishing a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Colorado, Boulder.