About
T.J. Martinson is an assistant professor of English at Murray State University, teaching courses in creative writing and literature. His critically acclaimed debut novel, The Reign of the Kingfisher, was published in 2019 by Flatiron Books; his next novel, Her New Eyes, is forthcoming from Clash Books in 2025. He holds a PhD in English from Indiana University and a MA in Literary Studies from Eastern Illinois University. 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.