Lee Martin
Faculty, Postgraduate Writers' Conference
Profile
Lee Martin is the author of The Bright Forever, a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. That novel’s eagerly anticipated follow-up, The Evening Shades, will be out from the Melville House imprint of Penguin Random House in March of 2025 (in time to celebrate at the Conference!) Martin’s other novels are, most recently, The Glassmaker’s Wife (2022) and Yours, Jean (2020), as well as Late One Night, Break the Skin, River of Heaven, and Quakertown.
In 2021 Lee added Gone the Hard Road to his body of memoirs that includes From Our House, Turning Bones, and Such a Life. He is also the author of two short story collections, The Mutual UFO Network and The Least You Need to Know, his debut book publication and winner of the 1995 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. He is the co-editor of Passing the Word: Writers on Their Mentors and the author of a craft book, Telling Stories: The Craft of Narrative and the Writing Life.
Lee’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in such places as Harper’s, Ms., Creative Nonfiction, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Glimmer Train, The Best American Essays, and The Best American Mystery Stories. He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. He teaches in the MFA Program at The Ohio State University, where he is a College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor and winner of the 2006 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. He has long served on the Postgrad Conference faculty, alternating between Novel and Creative Nonfiction.