Martin received his bachelor degree from Saint Ambrose University and received a Master of Arts in English literature from DePaul University. A native of Chicago, Martin chairs the English Department at Marian Catholic High School in Chicago Heights, Illinois.
He has been praised by the Polish-American community for his Polish Trilogy, although he is not of Polish descent himself, and was honored in 2007 by the American Institute of Polish Culture and in 2008 by the Wisconsin Division of the Polish American Congress.