Chris Martin is the author of The Falling Down Dance (Coffee House, 2015), winner of the 2016 Midwest Independent Booksellers Choice Award; Becoming Weather (Coffee House, 2011); and American Music (Copper Canyon, 2007) chosen by C. D. Wright for the Hayden Carruth Award. He is the recent recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Minnesota State Arts Board. In 2015 he co-founded Unrestricted Interest, a consultancy and writing program dedicated to transforming the lives of kids and adults on the autism spectrum through poetry. He also co-edits Unrestricted Editions, dedicated to transforming poetry though the voices of those with autism. He lives in Minneapolis, where he teaches at Hamline University and Carleton College.