Martha Silano is the author of two poetry collections, Blue Positive (Steel Toe Books 2006), and What the Truth Tastes Like, winner of the William & Kingman Page poetry book award and published by Nightshade Press in 1999. Her poems have appeared in Paris Review, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, and TriQuarterly, among others, and have been anthologized widely, most notably in Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poetry about Birds (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux 2004), Not for Mother's Only: On Child-Rearing and Child-Getting (Fence Books 2007),  and American Poetry: the Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon University 2000). Martha is a Seattle Arts Commission grant recipient, an Artist Trust GAP grant recipient,  and has been nominated for a Pushcart prize three times. She’s been awarded residences at the Millay Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Arizona Poetry Center, and she recently spent eight months as the recipient of the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency. Martha teaches at Edmonds and Bellevue Community Colleges.        Martha can be reached at marthasilano@yahoo.com.
		©1999-2006 Martha Silano