Juan Martinez
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D. University of Nevada, Las Vegas
member of the graduate faculty
member of the graduate faculty
- juan.martinez@northwestern.edu
- Website
- 847-467-4677
- University Hall 328
- Office Hours: On Leave Spring 2025
Biography
Juan Martinez (PhD, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2011) is a fiction writer. He was born in Bucaramanga, Colombia, and has since lived in Orlando, Florida, and Las Vegas, Nevada. His work has appeared in various literary journals and anthologies, including Glimmer Train, Ecotone, McSweeney's, TriQuarterly, The Sunday Morning Transport, Small Odysseys, Conjunctions, National Public Radio's Selected Shorts, Norton's Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America, and The Perpetual Engine of Hope: Stories Inspired by Iconic Vegas Photographs. Work is forthcoming in the anthology Flash Fiction America.
Specializations
Latinx Literature, Creative Writing Fiction
Books
Extended Stay (University of Arizona Press, 2023)
Best Worst American: Stories (Small Beer Press, 2017)