Michael A. Martone is a professor at the creative writing program at the University of Alabama, and is the author of several books. His most recent work, titled Michael Martone and originally written as a series of contributor's notes for various publications, is an investigation of form and autobiography.
A former student of John Barth, Martone's work is critically regarded as powerful and funny. Making use of Whitman's catalogues and Ginsberg's lists, the events, moments and places in Martone's landscapes — fiction or otherwise — often take the same Mobius-like turns of the threads found the works of his mentor, Barth.
First all you have the wrong author Michael Martone's profile for the book Dark Light produced by Lustrum Press NYC a photography pubisher,not a writers venue. The correct author's profile of Dark Light is of Michael Martone a photographer born in 1941 stillactive in New York City. Martone is currently in an 40th year anniversary of NYU Tisch School of the Arts faculty exhibit. Martone has exhibited at MoMA and the Fogg Museum and is a past recipient of the National Endowment of the Arts full fellowship in photography and has been represented by major galleries in NYC and France.