[2] Camille Martin was born in El Dorado, Arkansas, in 1956 and spent most of her childhood in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Martin is the author of five full-length poetry collections: Blueshift Road (Rogue Embryp Press, 2021),Looms (Shearsman Books, 2012), Sonnets Shearsman Books, 2010),[4] Codes of Public Sleep[permanent dead link][5] (Toronto: BookThug, 2007), and Sesame Kiosk (Elmwood, Conn.: Potes & Poets, 2001).
She has also published four chapbooks: If Leaf, Then Arpeggio,[6] Rogue Embryo, Magnus Loop, and Plastic Heaven.
[8] From 2006 to 2010, she taught literature and writing at Ryerson University,[9] where she served as an editor for the literary journal White Wall, co-curated the poetry reading series Live Poets Society, and hosted a monthly edition of the literary program In Other Words on CKLN-FM.
[10] Martin regularly writes essays about poetry and the visual arts at her blog, Rogue Embryo.