Winner of the 2024 Alice James Editors’ Choice Award
Set within a Midwestern family home along the shores of Lake Michigan, Scrap Book explores the prison sentence Martino’s father served before he was born and its aftermath in which he was raised.
Forthcoming from Alice James Books in June 2026.
Book tour information available soon.
Nick Martino is a poet and teacher from Milwaukee. His debut poetry collection “Scrap Book” (Alice James Books) won the 2024 Alice James Editors’ Choice Award and will be published in 2026. His poems are published or forthcoming from Ploughshares, Best New Poets, Gulf Coast, Poetry Daily, Ninth Letter, The Boston Review, and The Southern Review, among others. A finalist for the 2024 Sewanee Review Poetry Prize, he holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine where he received the 2022 Excellence in Poetry Prize. He lives in LA.
