Menu Menu Martha Silano’s most recent poetry collections include Last Train to Paradise: New and Selected Poems, published by Saturnalia Books in 2026, and Terminal Surreal, published by Acre Books in 2025. She is also the author of This One We Call Ours, winner of the 2023 Blue Lynx Prize, published by Lynx House Press in 2024, as well as Gravity Assist, Reckless Lovely, and The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception, all from Saturnalia Books. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, and The Missouri Review, and in many anthologies. Awards include North American Review’s James Hearst Poetry Prize and The Cincinnati Review’s Robert and Adele Schiff Poetry Prize. Two of her poems have appeared in the Best American Poetry series. Martha taught at Bellevue College in Washington State for thirty years. She died in May 2025, after a two-year struggle with ALS. Her website is marthasilano.net.
