Martina Evans is an Irish poet, novelist and teacher. She grew up in County Cork and has lived in London since 1988. The author of thirteen books of prose and poetry, Evans’s first novel, Midnight Feast, (Sinclair-Stevenson) won a Betty Trask Award in 1996. This was followed by The Glass Mountain (Sinclair-Stevenson 1997) and her third novel, No Drinking No Dancing No Doctors was published by Bloomsbury in 2000.  Martina’s fourth poetry collection, Facing the Public (Anvil, 2009) won the Premio Ciampi International Prize for Poetry in 2011. Petrol, her first long narrative poem was published in 2012. Burnfort, Las Vegas (Anvil Press 2014) was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award.  The Windows of Graceland, New & Selected Poems was published by Carcanet in May 2016. Now We Can Talk Openly About Men, a historical narrative poem was published by Carcanet in 2018 and was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award,  the Pigott Poetry Award and the Roehampton Poetry Prize. American Mules (Carcanet 2021) won the Pigott Poetry Prize 2022. The Coming Thing (Carcanet 2023), a seventy-five sonnet narrative sequence, was a TLS and Irish Times Book of the Year and is short-listed for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry.