Manuel Martinez was born in Miami and earned
his MFA in fiction writing from the University of Florida in
1993. He was a professor of English at Santa Fe College in
Gainesville, Florida for seventeen years where he taught Creative
Writing and Creative Videomaking. Presently teaches
composition and literature at St. John’s University and John Jay
College of Criminal Justice. He won the Zora Neale
Hurston/Richard Wright award in 1993, and the Emerging Writers’
Fellowship from The Center for Fiction in 2012. His fiction
has been published in The
Sun, Blackbird,Bridge,The Los Angeles
Review,The Quarterly, Gulf
Stream, The
Literarian, and Mandala.
The true story of how he faked his own murder appeared inCoral
Living. He works with Bridges Across Borders, a
non-governmental organization dedication to education and
development in Southeast Asia and Central America. He loves
all types of water sports, as well as travelling, especially Latin
America. He lives in Brooklyn.