Martha Jackson Kaplan is a recipient of the Zylpha Mapp Robinson International Poetry Award and two Editor-in-Chief Awards from Möbius the Poetry Magazine. She won both a first and a third place in the Poets’ Choice Contest from the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. She holds degrees in sociology and art history from the University of Houston and has done post grad work in English at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also holds an M.Ed. from Loyola of Chicago, with credentials in Special Ed and English from Edgewood College. She is a retired teacher who was raised in Seattle, has lived in both Houston and Chicago, and now lives in Madison, Wisconsin. Publications can be found in Cirque: A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim, Hummingbird, The Night Heron Barks, Unlikely Stories, including the 20th Anniversary Issue, Verse Wisconsin, Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar, Nixes Mate Review, and Bending Genres Journal. Additionally, she has been published in numerous anthologies including Bending Genres Anthology, 56 Days of August, An Anthology of Postcards; Driftfish: A Zoomorphic Anthology, Hospital Drive Anthology, University of Virginia, and Blue Heron Review. A book of her poems, Wind Eyes, is forthcoming from Mad Hat Press Autumn 2024. More at marthakaplanpoet.com. SELECTED AWARDS Möbius The Poetry Magazine, 30th Anniversary Issue, 2012, Nominated for Pushcart Prize, “In Sichuan they dream of schools” Möbius, The Poetry Magazine, Issue 29, 2011 The Third Dr. Zylpha Mapp Robinson International Poetry Award, First Place “Haymarket Poems: Albert Parsons Speaks” Möbius, The Poetry Magazine, Issue 30, 2012 Editor-in-Chief’s Award, “At Café Brecht with Norwegian poet Hanne Bramness” Poets' Choice, Triad Contest, First Place, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, 2016 “City of Light” (unpublished) Poets' Choice, Triad Contest, Third Place, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, 2018 “West Fork of the Kickapoo”BOOKS "Wind Eyes," Mad Hat Press, forthcoming, 2024TEACHING Therapist, Child Guidance Center, Houston, Texas, 1974-1975 English Composition, Madison Area Technical College, 1998 -99 Teacher, Middle School, High School, Special Education, English ca.1999-2002Contact: martha.kaplan@gmail.com