Dawn Lundy Martin is the author of CANDY (forthcoming from Albion Books), DISCIPLINE (Nighboat Books 2011); A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering (University of Georgia Press 2007); and, The Morning Hour, selected in 2003 by C.D. Wright for the Poetry Society of America's National Chapbook Fellowship. She is a founding member of the Black Took Collective, a group of experimental black poets, and an assistant professor of English in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh.