Martin Corless-Smith

Martin Corless-Smith was born and raised in Worcestershire, England. He studied painting at the University of Reading and Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and poetry at the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop and the University of Utah, where his PhD focused on both the religious lyric and Modernism. His books are Swallows (Fence Books 2006), Nota (Fence 2003), Complete Travels (West House Books, 2000) and Of Piscator (University of Georgia Press 1998). Currently he teaches creative writing and literature at Boise State University, in Idaho.