Juan Martinez
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D. University of Nevada, Las Vegas
member of the graduate faculty
member of the graduate faculty

- juan.martinez@northwestern.edu
- Website
- 847-467-4677
- University Hall 328
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 8:30am-10:30am
Biography
Juan Martinez is the author of the novel Extended Stay (2023) and the story collection Best Worst American (2017). He lives near Chicago and is an associate professor at Northwestern University. His work has appeared most recently in EPOCH, Ploughshares, The Chicago Quarterly Review, The Sunday Morning Transport, Huizache, Ecotone, NIGHTMARE, McSweeney’s, NPR's Selected Shorts, Small Odysseys, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, Sudden Fiction Latino, Flash Fiction America, and elsewhere, and is forthcoming in Something Followed Us Home: Tales of Latine Horror from Simon & Schuster/Primero Sueño.
Specializations
Latinx Literature, Creative Writing Fiction
Books

Extended Stay (University of Arizona Press, 2023)

Best Worst American: Stories (Small Beer Press, 2017)