Martin Dickinson is the author of three previous collections of poems Life List Notes (Sligo Creek, 2021); together with his wife, poet Nancy Allinson, What a Windstorm Teaches (Sligo Creek, 2019), and My Concept of Time (Finishing Line, 2014). He was poet of the month for May, 2015 for the online journal Blue Heron Review. Dickinson's poems appear in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, California Quarterly, Innisfree Poetry Journal, the Russian language weekly Kontinent (in translation) and several other print and online journals. He and Nacy live in Friendship Heights, Washington D.C.