Want fewer ads?

Martin Pousson (born April 13, 1966) is an American novelist, poet, and professor.

He was born and raised in Louisiana, in the bayou country of Acadiana. Some of his favorite writers include Kelly Link and Katherine Dunn, as well as Denis Johnson and Junot Diaz.

His first novel, No Place, Louisiana (2002), was published by Riverhead Books, and it told the story of a Cajun family and an American dream gone wrong. The novel won acclaim from Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Cunningham and the Los Angeles Times, and it was a finalist for the John Gardner Book Award in Fiction.

His first collection of poetry, Sugar (2005), was published by Suspect Thoughts Press, and it centered on the lives of outsiders, especially Cajuns, Southerners and gay men. Some of the poems also dealt with racism and the AIDS epidemic. The collection was praised by Alfred Corn and Jake Shears, and it was named a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Poetry. Interestingly enough, he says that this collection would not have ever been published if it were not for a friend's saved copy of the manuscript.

His stories and poems have appeared in StoryQuarterly, Epoch, Cimarron Review, Icon, Transfer, Cocktail, New Orleans Review, The Louisiana Review, Verse Daily, Intersection, Love, Bourbon Street, and Gay City Anthology.

He has taught at Columbia University in New York City, at Rutgers University in New Jersey and at Loyola University New Orleans. He is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and English at California State University, Northridge, in Los Angeles. Some of his most popular courses include Narrative Fiction, Experimental Fiction, and Narrative Theory.

This author page uses material from the Wikipedia article "Martin Pousson", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0