After some time away to rethink, reinvigorate, and rebuild,Crow Reads is back with a new episode. This season I’m broadening our conversations into the literary world and interviewing, yes authors, as well as publishers, literary festival directors, editors, agents and more. For our firstinterview of the season, I’m delighted to interview the incomparable Dr. Lisa Martin, author and creative writing professor about developing a varied writing career, tension in story and character creation, sentence craft, and writingtraumatic grief. To close us off, Dr. Martin shares one favourite piece of writing advice.
Lisa Martin is the author of two full-length poetrycollections, One Crow Sorrow (Brindle & Glass, 2008)and Believing is not the Same as Being Saved (University ofAlberta Press, 2017). Her work has been shortlisted for the City of Edmonton Book Prize and has won a National Magazine Award for Personal Journalism. A scholarly monograph, Creative Writing in Post-Secondary Education:Practice, Pedagogy, and Research, appeared with Bloomsbury Academic in Spring 2025. She is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at MacEwan University in Edmonton, on Treaty 6 territory. Her first novel, A Story Can Be Told About Pain, published by NeWest Press and recorded by HighBridge Audio, is available now as a print book, e-book, and audiobook ashas been a regular on the Alberta Bestseller list.
