Books by Philip Martin

Philip Martin has produced books that won the Benjamin Franklin and Banta awards and Small Press Award for Fiction. He has edited many guides for writers on craft and career, on diverse topics from screenwriting to interviewing skills to being a successful freelancer, and is the author of a book of speculative fiction, "A Guide to Fantasy Literature." He is director of Great Lakes Literary, which offers a range of development services for writers and their projects. Includes contributions by Tess Gerritsen and Lois Lowry.
Ted Kooser is a poet and essayist, a professor of English at The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and most recently, the United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 - 2006. He has been awarded the Pushcart Prize, two NEA Writing Fellowships and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for "Delights and Shadows." He worked for many years in the life insurance business, retiring in 1999 as a vice president. He and his wife, Kathleen Rutledge, editor of "The Lincoln Journal Star," live on an acreage near the village of Garland, Nebraska. He has a son, Jeff, and a granddaughter, Margaret.