Nick Martino

Nick Martino is a poet and teacher from Milwaukee. He is the author of Scrap Book (Alice James Books, 2026), winner of the 2024 Alice James Editors’ Choice Award. His poems are published or forthcoming from Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Best New Poets, Gulf Coast, Poetry Daily, and The Southern Review, among others. He has received support and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers Conference, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and Community of Writers. A finalist for the 2024 Sewanee Review Poetry Prize, he holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, where he received the Excellence in Poetry Prize. He lives in LA.