Martha Zweig

Martha Zweig's work has received the Hopwood Award, and Pushcart, Best-of-the-Web and Kingsley-Tufts nominations. Some of her poems appear in anthologies including Roads Taken, Sydney Lea and Chard deNiord; Ravishing DisUnities, Agha Shahid Ali, and I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You, Naomi Shihab Nye and Paul B. Janeczco. Her full-length collections are Get Lost (DHP 2020), winner of the Rousseau Prize for Literature; Monkey Lightning (Tupelo Press, 2010); What Kind (Wesleyan University Press, 2003) and Vinegar Bone (Wesleyan University Press, 1999). Her chapbooks are A Skirmish of Harks (Jacar Press e-book, 2021) and Powers (the Vermont Arts Council, 1976). Her poems have appeared in journals, among them Boston Review; The Progressive; Crazyhorse; Field; Ploughshares; The Kenyon Review; The Gettysburg Review; The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Paris Review and Verse Daily online. She received her MFA from Warren Wilson College in 1998 and grew up in suburban New Jersey. A participant in the semi-revolutionary turmoil of the 1960’s, she has lived in Hardwick, Vermont, since 1974. She worked 10 years handling garments at a nearby pajama factory, including a term as shop chairlady for the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, and another 10 years as an advocate for seniors with the nonprofit Area Agency on Aging. She has volunteered at an animal shelter and for Restorative Justice, and spends an hour every week on the street holding signs on various issues.