Martin Pousson

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Martin Pousson

Born	April 13, 1966 Crowley, Louisiana, USA
Occupation	Novelist, Poet, Professor
Nationality	American
Genres	Fiction, Poetry
Literary movement	Southern literature, Cajun literature, Gay and Lesbian literature

Influences Dorothy Allison, Frank McCourt, Elizabeth Bishop, Mark Doty

Martin Pousson (born April 13, 1966) is an American novelist, poet, and professor.

He was born and raised in Louisiana, in the bayou country of Acadiana.

His first novel, No Place, Louisiana, was published in 2002 by Riverhead Books, and it told the story of a Cajun family and an American dream gone wrong. The novel won acclaim from Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Cunningham and The Los Angeles Times, and it was a finalist for the John Gardner Book Award in Fiction.

His first collection of poetry, Sugar (2005), was published in 2005 by Suspect Thoughts Press, and it centered on the lives of outsiders, especially Cajuns, Southerners, and gay men. Some of the poems also dealt with racism and the AIDS epidemic. The collection was praised by Alfred Corn and Jake Shears, and it was named a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Poetry.

He has taught at Columbia University in New York City, at Rutgers University in New Jersey and at Loyola University in New Orleans. He is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and English at California State University, Northridge, in Los Angeles.