Pablo Miguel Martínez is an award-winning poet whose poetry and prose have been published in the North American Review, San Antonio Express-News, Texas Poetry Review, and many other publications and periodicals.

His first book of poetry, Brazos, Carry Me, received the 2013 PEN Southwest Book Award for Poetry. His chapbook, Cuent@ (Finishing Line Press), was published in 2015. Martínez’s literary work has received support from the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation and the Artist Foundation of San Antonio. He is also a co-founder of CantoMundo, a national retreat-workshop for Latina/o poets.

In addition to his writing and work in the nonprofit sector, Martínez has taught English and creative writing at San Antonio’s own Our Lady of the Lake University, Houston’s Lone Star College, and the University of Louisville. His work often revolves around lives that don’t fit the standard mold of the society they’re living in, including Latinx and LGBTQIA characters. 

“My father, who was as fiercely proud of his Mexican roots as he was clear-eyed about his American reality, often used the worn adage familiar to many people of color: ‘You have to be twice as good to get half as much.’ San Antonio’s Chicana and Chicano poets and writers are more than twice as good; ‘great’ is an apt description.”