Martha Collins's Admit One: An American Scrapbook (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016), White Papers (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012) and the book-length poem Blue Front (Graywolf Press, 2006) combine documentary research with innovative poetic techniques to explore disturbing aspects of America’s history, including race and racism. Described by the AWP Chronicle as “a dazzling poet whose poetry is poised at the juncture between the lyric and ethics,” Collins has also published four collections of co-translated Vietnamese poetry and (among other books of poetry) Night Unto Night (Milkweed Editions, 2018) and Day Unto Day (Milkweed Editions, 2014). Founder of the creative writing program at UMass-Boston, she served as Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College for ten years and as Distinguished Visiting Writer at Cornell University in 2010. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Learn more at Martha Collins’s website.