MARTHA RONK: President's Writers-in-Residence Series, March 14 - 17, 2012
Martha Ronk has published one collection of short stories, Glass Grapes (BOA Editions, 2008), two memoirs and seven books of poetry, including Vertigo (Coffee House Press, winner of the 2006 National Poetry Series) and In a Landscape of Having to Repeat
(Omnidawn, 2004). She received the 2005 PEN USA award in poetry, the
Lynda Hull Poetry Award, Gertrude Stein Awards in Poetry and a grant
from the National Endowment for the Arts. Ronk is Professor of English
at Occidental College in Los Angeles.