Martha Collins

Martha Collins has published eleven books of poetry, most recently Casualty Reports (Pittsburgh, 2022) and Because What Else Could I Do (Pittsburgh, 2019), which won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. Collins has received numerous other awards, including the New England Poetry Club’s 2025 Golden Rose. She has also published five volumes of co-translated Vietnamese poetry, most recently Dreaming the Mountain by Tuệ Sỹ, with Nguyen Ba Chung (Milkweed, 2023), and co-edited a number of anthologies, including Into English: Poems, Translations, Commentaries, with Kevin Prufer (Graywolf, 2017). Collins founded the UMass Boston creative writing program and later served as Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College. A book of prose, Word Work: Essays, Reviews, Reflections, was published in 2025.