T.J. Martinson

T.J. Martinson is the author of The Reign of the Kingfisher (Flatiron Books, 2019), Her New Eyes (Clash Books, May 2025), and Blood River Witch (Counterpoint Press, 2026).

His short fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming from Lithub, Oxford American, The Cincinnati Review, Bluestem, Passages North, JMWW, [PANK], LIT Magazine, CRAFT, Permafrost Magazine, The Offing, Pithead Chapel, and Heavy Feather Review.

His scholarship on literature and science studies has been published in Modern Fiction Studies, American Literature, Poetics Today, Configurations, and others.

He received his PhD in English from Indiana University and is currently Assistant Professor of English at Murray State University, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in creative writing and literature.