About
T.J. Martinson is an assistant professor of English at Murray State University, teaching courses in creative writing and literature. He is the author of The Reign of the Kingfisher (Flatiron Books, 2019), Her New Eyes (Clash Books, May 2025), and Blood River Hymnal (Counterpoint Press, 2026). He holds a PhD in English from Indiana University and a MA in Literary Studies from Eastern Illinois University. In addition to creative writing, his scholarship investigates contemporary metafiction’s unique capacity to reflect and generate models of twenty-first-century embodiment following the Human Genome Project.