Martha Collins was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1940. Collins is the author of four books of poetry: Some Things Words Can Do (Sheep Meadow Press, 1998); History of a Small Life on a Windy Planet (1993); The Arrangement of Space (1991), winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Competition; and The Catastrophe of Rainbows (1985). She also edited Critical Essays on Louise Bogan (1984) and translated the poems of Nguyen Quang Thieu in The Women Carry River Water (1997).
