Martha Strom
Martha (Marty) Strom lives in Brooklyn, New York, after starting out in Cincinnati, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Boston, Princeton, and Atlanta. She received a Phi Beta Kappa key when she graduated with Distinction in English from Boston University. Soon afterwards, she earned a M.A. and a Ph.D. in English Literature from Princeton. (That was during the first decade of women at Princeton.) Later, she taught English and Writing at Princeton, Brandeis, and Harvard, before moving to New York where she taught Adults with Psychiatric Disabilities; and ESL at Pace University.
Her poems have appeared in New Letters, Passager, and Common Ground Review, among other journals. Besides caring for little creatures, she currently volunteers at Poets House, after a long career in teaching.