Erik Martiny holds a PhD in contemporary poetry. He teaches literature, art and translation to prep school students at the Lycée Henri IV in Paris. His short stories, reviews and articles have appeared in Fjords Review, Frieze, Litro, the Times Literary Supplement, The London Magazine, Aesthetica Magazine, The Cambridge Quarterly and other periodicals. He is the editor of A Companion to Poetic Genre (Wiley-Blackwell). He lives with his wife and two sons in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.