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Kristen Martin

Kristen Martin
Kristen Martin is working on a collection of essays that meditates on grief, death, and life. Her personal and critical essays have been published in The Cut, Hazlitt, Catapult, Real Life, and elsewhere. She received an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University, consults with writers at the Columbia University Writing Center and teaches writing at NYU.


All in the Family: Considering Television’s Orphan Plot

Kristen Martin on the Superficial Portrayals of Orphanhood on 90s TV
January 22, 2025  By Kristen Martin
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Marriage Isn’t the Only Plot for Love

Reading Briallen Hopper and Rethinking Love
February 11, 2019  By Kristen Martin
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Why We Love—and Need to Leave Behind—Dead Girl Stories

"The Way We Tell Them Gives Us Permission to Look Away from Obvious Patterns"
June 27, 2018  By Kristen Martin
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Gregory Pardlo on Form, His Father, and Not Writing a Book About Race

The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Talks his New Memoir in Essays, Air Traffic
April 9, 2018  By Kristen Martin
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Keeping House to Stave Off Grief

On Marilynne Robinson and Finding Comfort in Domestic Rituals
September 14, 2017  By Kristen Martin
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How Grief Books by Mediums Harm the Living and the Dead

On Empty Messages from the Other Side
April 4, 2017  By Kristen Martin
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In Praise of the New Aphorism, No Longer Just For Great Men

How Sarah Manguso, Maggie Nelson, and Rivka Galchen Are Making It New
February 16, 2017  By Kristen Martin
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Phillip Lopate Revisits a 30-Year-Old Conversation with his Mother

Kristen Martin speaks with the teacher, essayist, and author of A Mother's Tale
January 17, 2017  By Kristen Martin
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5 Fictional Vegetarians Who Defy Stereotypes

On Memes and More Nuanced Representations of Non-Meat Eaters
August 17, 2016  By Kristen Martin
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Interrogating Sentimentality with Leslie Jamison

In Conversation with the Author of The Empathy Exams
May 9, 2016  By Kristen Martin
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Donald Trump’s Sentimental Journey to the Top

Revisiting Joan Didion on 90s NYC, to Make Sense of Present Day America
March 22, 2016  By Kristen Martin
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