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Martha Collins
Martha Collins is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Some Things Words Can Do (Sheep Meadow Press); her book-length poem Blue Front is forthcoming from Graywolf in 2006. She is also co-translator of two collections of poems from the Vietnamese: The Women Carry River Water by Nguyen Quang Thieu (UMass) and Green Rice by Lam Thi My Da from Curbstone Press.
She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bunting Institute, and three Pushcart Prizes. She is currently a Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing and English at Oberlin College.