Martin George Galvin (February 21, 1937 – August 6, 2018)[1] was a prize-winning American poet and teacher.
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 taught creative writing and poetry at Walt Whitman High School, Bethesda, Maryland.
[3] They divided their time between Chevy Chase, Maryland and Ocean View, Delaware.
His book of poems Wild Card was the winner of the 1989 Columbia Prize for poetry judged by Howard Nemerov.