Marty Cain is the author of three books of poetry and hybrid writing: The Prelude (Action Books, 2023); The Wound Is (Not) Real: A Memoir (Trembling Pillow Press, 2021); and Kids of the Black Hole (Trembling Pillow Press 2017). Individual works appear in Best American Experimental Writing, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. A critical book, Making Place: Rural Infrastructure, Media, and D.I.Y. Poetic Community is under contract with Clemson University Press. In Ithaca, New York, he co-edits Garden-Door Press, is the vocalist for punk band Joyous Shrub, and works for Cornell University Library.