Bio

Samuel Martin is orginally from Gilmour, Ontario, a place that Al Purdy described as “a little north of where the cities are and a little adjacent to where the world is.” He did his undergrad at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ontario, where he got interested in writing and got hooked on the fiction of Alistair MacLeod and Michael Crummey. After Redeemer he entered the MA program in Creative Writing at the University of Toronto, where he worked with award-winning author David Adams Richards. He now lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland with his wife Samantha and their black lab Vader. When he’s not researching Norwegian death-metal, Newfoundland surrealism or the B.C. drug trade for a new novel project, Sam enjoys listening to live music on George Street, hiking the East Coast Trail, and sledding down his street on a shovel in February.  

A few months after arriving in St. John’s, he submitted a manuscript of short stories to a publisher in town and that’s how this whole author thing got started.

Sam’s first book, This Ramshackle Tabernacle, has received great reviews and was a finalist for the 2010 BMO Winterset Award. Since that publication his short fiction, creative nonfiction, and book reviews have been published in journals in both Canada and the USA.

TRT and is now available to order from Breakwater Books or Chapters.ca.