Lee Martin will serve as guest literary nonfiction editor for the CR in Spring 2019. He’s the author of five novels: The Bright Forever (Shaye Areheart, 2005), a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction; River of Heaven (Crown/Shaye Areheart, 2008); Quakertown (Dutton, 2001); Break the Skin (Crown, 2011); and Late One Night (Dzanc, 2016). A new novel, Yours, Jean, will be out in 2020. His first book was the short-story collection, The Least You Need To Know (Sarabande, 1996), and his most recent book is another story collection, The Mutual UFO Network (Dzanc, 2018).
He has also published three memoirs, From Our House (Dutton, 2000), Turning Bones (U of Nebraska Press, 2003), and Such a Life (U of Nebraska Press, 2012), in addition to a craft book, Telling Stories: The Craft of Narrative and the Writing Life (U of Nebraska Press, 2017), and his essay “Bastards” appeared in The Best American Essays 2016. He is the co-editor of Passing the Word: Writers on Their Mentors (Sarabande, 2001). His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in such places as Harper’s, Ms., Creative Nonfiction, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and Glimmer Train.
Lee is the winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and 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 where he was also the winner of the 2006 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.
