Martin Pousson
Martin Pousson was born and raised in Acadiana, the Cajun French bayou land of Louisiana. His novel, Black Sheep Boy , includes stories that won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Two of his stories were finalists for the Glimmer Train Fiction Awards. His collection of poetry, Sugar , was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and his first novel, No Place, Louisiana , was a finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award. His writing has appeared in The Advocate , Antioch...See more
Martin Pousson was born and raised in Acadiana, the Cajun French bayou land of Louisiana. His novel, Black Sheep Boy , includes stories that won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Two of his stories were finalists for the Glimmer Train Fiction Awards. His collection of poetry, Sugar , was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and his first novel, No Place, Louisiana , was a finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award. His writing has appeared in The Advocate , Antioch Review , Epoch , Los Angeles Review of Books , The Rumpus , StoryQuarterly , TriQuarterly , and elsewhere. He now lives in Los Angeles. See less