Martin Galvin (born February 21, 1937 Philadelphia) is a prize-winning American poet and teacher.
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Martin George Galvin grew up in Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Catholic schools including St. John's High School in Manayunk, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in a class of 15. After graduating from Villanova University with a BA degree in Liberal Arts he continued his education and received his Masters and his Ph.D. degrees in American Literature from the University of Maryland, College Park while teaching literature at St. Joseph's College, Emmitsburg, Maryland. After moving to the Washington, D.C. area in the early 1970s, he continued teaching creative writing and poetry at Walt Whitman High School, Bethesda, MD. He is married to Theresa Galvin, and they have two daughters, Brenna (CA) married to Chris Sidhall and Tara (PA) married to Greg Curry, and four grandchildren.[1]
His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly,[2] Best American Poetry 1997, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, D.C. Poets Against the War, Delaware Poetry Review,[3] Four Quarters, Midwest Quarterly, Orion, Poet Lore, Poetry, Poetry East, and Texas Review.
He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland and Ocean View, Delaware.[4]
He currently teaches at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland.[5]
His book of poems Wild Card was the winner of the 1989 Columbia Prize for poetry judged by Howard Nemerov.[6] He was also the recipient of the 1992 Poet Lore Narrative Poetry Award.[5]