Martin Ott is the author of eight books of poetry and fiction, including Captive, De Nove Prize Winner (C&R Press, 2012) and Underdays (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015), Sandeen Prize Winner and Forward Indies Finalist. His newest book, Fake News Poems (BlazeVOX Books, 2019), takes the headline of a news story from each week as a starting point to explore political and personal turmoil in the first year of Trump's presidency. His work has appeared in 20 anthologies and more than 200 magazines, including Antioch Review, Epoch, Harvard Review, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, and Zyzzyva. A former US Army interrogator, Ott is a longtime resident of Los Angeles.