Martin Galvin

Background

Galvin grew up in Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Education

He attended Catholic schools including Saint John"s High School, Manayunk, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in a class of 15. After graduating from Villanova University with a Bachelor degree in Liberal Arts he continued his education and received his Masters and his Doctor of Philosophy degrees in American Literature from the University of Maryland, College Park while teaching literature at Saint Joseph"s College, Emmitsburg, Maryland.

Career

He currently teaches at the Writer"s Center in Bethesda, Maryland. After moving to the Washington, District of Columbia area in the early 1970s, he taught creative writing and poetry at Walt Whitman High School, Bethesda, Maryland. He currently teaches at the Writer"s Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

They divide their time between Chevy Chase, Maryland and Ocean View, Delaware.

Achievements

• His book of poems Wild Card was the winner of the 1989 Columbia Prize for poetry judged by Howard Nemerov. He was also the recipient of the 1992 Poet Lore Narrative Poetry Award.

Works

• Other Work

  • "PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE". Atlantic Monthly. August 1998. "THE TOAD IN THE GARDEN.
    
    SUMMER HOUSE

  • FISH, HERON, RIVER". Delaware Review. 2007. "Sounding the Atlantic," (Broadkill River Press, 2010)Circling Out.
    
    Finishing Line Press. 2007. . Appetites (Bogg Publications, 2000)Making Beds (Sedwick House, 1989)Wild Card (Washington Writers Publishing House, 1989)Anthologies Sam Hamill, Sally Anderson, eds. (2003). "Army Burn Ward".
    
    Poets against the War. Thunder's Mouth Press. . James Tate, David Lehman, eds.
    
    (1997). "Introductions". The Best American Poetry 1997. Simon and Schuster.
    
    "The Poet Upstairs", Washington Writers Publishing House, 1997

  • "70 on the 70's", Ashland College, 1981

  • "Anthology of Magazine Verse", Los Angeles, 1981, 1983, 1985

  • "Songs from Unsung Worlds", Boston, 1985.