About
T.J. Martinson is the author of The Reign of the Kingfisher (Flatiron Books, 2019), Her New Eyes (Clash Books, May 2025), and Blood River Witch (Counterpoint Press, 2026). His shorter work has appeared in CRAFT, Lithub, Passages North, JMWW, [PANK], LIT Magazine, Permafrost Magazine, The Offing, Pithead Chapel, Heavy Feather Review, and others. In addition to creative writing, his scholarship investigates contemporary metafiction’s unique capacity to reflect and generate models of twenty-first-century embodiment following the Human Genome Project. He is currently Assistant Professor of English at Murray State University, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in creative writing and literature.