BLUE LIKE MY BELOVED
​Poems of Mirabai

"Martinez’s deft translation makes Mira’s blend of spiritual diction and street talk, ecstasy and desperation, snark and grief, land here in English with beauty and bite."
― Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr., author of After the Operation

"...both preserves and modernizes the power of Mira’s devotional lyrics to their deepest radiance. What a gift this translation is!"
― Prageeta Sharma, author of Onement Won

New Directions
Release date: October 6, 2026

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CHAOS, CREATIVITY, COMPLETION:
​New Approaches to Writing and ADHD

Fifteen essays that offer inspiration, encouragement, and advice from accomplished writers with ADHD.

"...sharp, strange, and gloriously anti-rule... When ADHD writers work with their brains instead of against them, the result isn’t just different—it’s better.”
― Tracy Otsuka, podcast host and author of ADHD for Smart Ass Women

“Every essay in this book illuminates a different path to wholeness, not alone but always interconnected with others... will doubtlessly accompany waves of neurodivergent writers out there joyfully becoming who they already are.”
― Chris Martin, author of May Tomorrow Be Awake: On Poetry, Autism, and Our Neurodiverse Future

The University of Chicago Press, 2026

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TEN THOUSAND SELVES

"Martinez understands the power of story to transmute experience into knowledge, and the power of poetry to question story's power. Her scope is global, her vision historical, and her voice—by turns tender, sardonic, full of rage or humbled awe—is eloquently contemporary."
​—Suzanne Buffam, author of A Pillow Book 

The Word Works, 2021

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CORNER SHRINE

"Attuned to both the insights and the limits of visitation, the poems inside Corner Shrine are ripe with scene and sense as they contemplate the wonders of arrival alongside the worries of transience."
—Geffrey Davis, author of Night Angler and judge of the 2019 Backbone Press Chapbook Prize

Backbone Press, 2020