Lucy Ruth Martinez

I am Lucy Ruth Martinez, you can call me Lucy Ruth (she/her/they). I am named after both my grandmothers, and am a queer poet that is inspired by my descendance as a Diné, Chicane, and Samoan woman. I love writing all about clay, mountains, lizards and birds. I am currently a second year poet in the MFA creative writing program here at Arizona State University. My writing (more recently) has been in conversation with Confessional (Anne Sexton, Sharon Olds, etc.) and American Indigenous (Jake Skeets, Solange Aguilar, Natalie Diaz, etc.) poets where I focus on landscapes, surreal, and lyric to explore the reclamation of self and history. Some authors that have influenced me to become a poet are: Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, J. Cole, N. Scott Momaday, Luci Topahonso, Leslie Silko, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Ada Limón, Donika Kelly, and others. I have been published in El Portal Literary Journal and have work upcoming in The Poetry Lighthouse and Sand Hills Literary Magazine. In my free time, I love to stay awake at night, watch animation, get tattoos, arrange puzzles, or do anything that is focused on craft and expression.