Gregory Martin

Martin is an Associate Professor of English and teaches creative nonfiction in the Creative Writing Program. For his teaching, Martin has received the Keleher Award for Outstanding Assistant Professor, the Gunter Starkey Award for Teaching Excellence from the University of New Mexico's College of Arts and Sciences, and the University of New Mexico Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award. Since 2011, he has served as Director of the Combined BA/MD Degree Program at UNM.

Stories for Boys

"In this memoir of fathers and sons, Gregory Martin struggles to reconcile the father he thought he knew with a man who has just survived a suicide attempt; a man who had been having anonymous affairs with men throughout his thirty-nine years of marriage; and who now must begin his life as a gay man. At a tipping point in our national conversation about gender and sexuality, rights and acceptance, Stories for Boys is about a father and a son finding a way to build a new relationship with one another after years of suppression and denial are given air and light." Buy this book Amazon.com | University Bookstore

Mountain City

"By the end of Gregory Martin's unsentimental but affecting memoir, only thirty-one people live in remote Mountain City, Nevada, and none of them are children. The town's abandoned mines are testimony to the cycle of promise, exploitation, abandonment, and attrition that has been the repeated story of the West. Yet the comings and goings at Tremewan's, the general store Martin's family has run for more than forty years, reveal a remarkably vibrant community that includes salty widows, Native Americans from a nearby reservation, and a number of Martin's deeply idiosyncratic Basque-descended relatives. Martin observes them as they persist in a difficult but rewarding existence and celebrates, with neither pity nor regret, the large and small dramas of their lives and their stubborn attachment to a place that seems likely to disappear in his lifetime." Buy this book Amazon.com | University Bookstore