Winner of the 2024 Alice James Editors’ Choice Award
Set within a Midwestern family home along the shores of Lake Michigan, Scrap Book explores the prison sentence my father served before I was born and its aftermath in which I was raised.
Forthcoming from Alice James Books in Fall 2026.
Book tour information available soon.
Nick Martino is a poet and teacher from Milwaukee. His poems have been published in Best New Poets, Narrative, Ninth Letter, The Boston Review, and The Southern Review, among others. A finalist for the 2024 Sewanee Review Poetry Prize, he holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine where he received the 2022 Excellence in Poetry Prize. He lives in LA.
