Emer Martin is a Dubliner who has lived in Paris, London, the Middle East, and various places in the United States. Her first novel, Breakfast in Babylon, won Irish Book of the Year 1996 at Listowel Writers Week. Houghton Mifflin published the novel in the US in 1997. Her second novel, More Bread Or I’ll Appear, followed in 1999. Emer studied painting at Hunter College in New York. Her latest novel, Baby Zero, was published by Brandon (Ireland) in 2007. Emer was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000. She now lives in County Meath and teaches courses at Trinity College and the Irish Writers’ Centre in Dublin
Emer Martin
the wolf of Ossory (OR: Of the prodigies of our times, and first of a wolf which conversed with a priest)
A letter from Rebecca Cartello in Scarborough, England, to her sister Carla in Longreach, Queensland, 15 December 1955
shadowgraph 73: no longer magic (poetry detected in maria goeppert-mayer’s nobel physics lecture, 1963)
How a Magical Rambler named Margaret saved me from the funeral of everything and prepared me for the Cork Spring Poetry Festival 2012