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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 short fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in venues such as Lithub, Oxford American, Bluestem, Passages North, JMWW, [PANK], LIT Magazine, CRAFT, Permafrost Magazine, The Offing, Pithead Chapel, and Heavy Feather Review. His scholarship on literature and science studies has been published in Modern Fiction Studies, American Literature, Poetics Today, Configurations, and others. He received his PhD in English from Indiana University and is currently Assistant Professor of English at Murray State University, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in creative writing and literature. https://www.tjmartinson.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c54b1158d9740082c7dad1e/1549061385442-TQCQNUH3HQMVD7SE3NM7/Martinson+photo.jpg Contact - Contact: Represented by Mark Falkin All photographs by Langlois Photography Twitter/Instagram: @tjmartinson TikTok: @tjmartinsonwritesbooks https://www.tjmartinson.com/the-reign-of-the-kingfisher daily 0.75 2025-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c54b1158d9740082c7dad1e/1549075306033-PTM0G49NCYVFGFAXYXU9/Reign+of+the+Kingfisher+09+%281%29.jpg The Reign of the Kingfisher https://www.tjmartinson.com/publications daily 0.75 2025-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c54b1158d9740082c7dad1e/1549062687402-8BTNTUE58814QUGWYP7V/9-9144.jpg Other Writing - Articles/Reviews “Narrative Scarring in The Underground Railroad.” (forthcoming from Modern Fiction Studies) “Reflexivity’s Ontological Turn: From Cybernetics to Autopoeisis in ‘The Circular Ruins’ and The People of Paper.” American Literature 95.4 (2023) “‘The Utter Blankness Found Within’: Epigenetic Formalism in House of Leaves.” Poetics Today 44.3 (2023) “Zahi Zalloua’s Theory’s Autoimmunity: Skepticism, Literature, and Philosophy.” Symploke, 27.1-2 (2019) “Sense and Supersensibility: Kantian Aesthetics in Lamarckian Evolutionary Theory.” Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology 27.3 (2019) “Speculative Realism.” Bloomsbury Handbook to Literary and Cultural Theory, Ed. Jeffrey Di Leo, Bloomsbury, 2018. “The Seismic Force of Stone: A Review of Jeffrey J. Cohen’s Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman.” Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology 24.4 (2016) “Postmodernism’s Material Turn: A Review of Christopher Breu’s The Insistence of the Material.” Postmodern Culture 25.3 (2016). “The Hyperobject’s Atomization of ‘Self’ in Gravity’s Rainbow.” Orbit: A Journal of American Literature 3.1 (2015) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c54b1158d9740082c7dad1e/1549064173105-B6RLAJIB6MSIWLY0RI2J/PANK-11-Cover-1-300x300.jpg Other Writing - Selected Short Stories “What Does Blue Want for Lunch?” Passages North (forthcoming 2026) “Buzzkill.” The Offing (2025) “Pocket God.” LIT Magazine (2024) “Chickenshit.” JMWW (2022) “Miss May Piecework.” [PANK] Magazine (2015) “How to Tell Your Wife You’re Not Presbyterian.” Midwestern Gothic (2015) “The Street and the Stutter.” Petrichor Machine (2015) “Cursed Rain.” Pithead Chapel (2014) “Fallout.” Bartleby Snopes (2014) “Tornado Alley.” Heavy Feather Review (2013) https://www.tjmartinson.com/home daily 1.0 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c54b1158d9740082c7dad1e/501320c5-76d5-41d6-be54-8229a0b4275a/book+cover.jpg Home - "Blood River Witch is a lyrical, deeply moving experience. T.J. Martinson accomplishes that most rare feat: he's written a novel that is as entertaining as it is thought-provoking." — S. A. Cosby, author of King of Ashes https://www.tjmartinson.com/her-new-eyes daily 0.75 2025-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c54b1158d9740082c7dad1e/a7d017eb-9c00-4b05-97ef-d75b2efcfcd4/cover.jpg Her New Eyes https://www.tjmartinson.com/blood-river-witch daily 0.75 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c54b1158d9740082c7dad1e/e875eebb-ea12-4c13-b78b-404dfe211718/book+cover.jpg Blood River Witch - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.