Martin Ott
Creative Playground
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A former U.S. Army interrogator, Martin Ott currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children, and still finds himself asking a lot of questions.
His fiction and poetry has appeared in nearly 100 publications, including the Anthology of Monterey Poets, Center, Cimarron Review, Confrontation Magazine, the Connecticut Review, Evergreen Review, forpoetry.com, Hayden's Ferry Review, Hotel Amerika, The Literary Review, Many Mountains Moving, Margie, Natural Bridge, New Letters, New Plains Review, Nimrod, Notre Dame Review, Pacific Review, Phoebe, Poetry East, Prairie Schooner, Quality Paperback Literary Review, Tampa Review, Terrain.org, the Third Coast, the Valparaiso Poetry Review, Zone 3 and Zyzzyva.
Martin has worked as a copywriter and marketing strategist in Los Angeles since moving there to attend the Masters of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California. He has also optioned three screenplays.
His manuscript "Children of Interrogation" has been a finalist or semi-finalist in fifteen poetry prizes and poems in it have received two Pushcart prize nominations. His chapbook "Misery Loves" was published on Red Dancefloor Press.
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
FICTION
PANK MAGAZINE - Vegas Everywhere I Go
REFERENTIAL MAGAZINE - The Interrogator's Last Question
TERRAIN MAGAZINE - Hunter's Point
POETRY
2RIVER VIEW - Angel Blue & Children of Interrogation
3QUARKSDAILY - Sunday Poem - Interrogator's Notebook
13 MILES FROM CLEVELAND - Collecting People
13 MILES FROM CLEVELAND - Requiem for Pluto
THE ADIRONDACK REVIEW - Shaman Gets Facelift After Dream
AVATAR REVIEW - Bend & High Above the Airport
BLOOD LOTUS - Countdown to Harmonic Convergence
FORPOETRY.COM - Bronzing of the Boots
FORPOETRY.COM - Upon Hearing 56 Miles of the LA River Will Become a State Park
THE LITERARY BOHEMIAN - Ghost Stand
THE LITERARY BOHEMIAN - Human Pyramid
NEW PLAINS REVIEW - Interrogator's Notebook
NEW VERSE NEWS - Soldier's Handbook
RAVING DOVE - When Buildings Fall
SALT RIVER REVIEW - Learning to Tango
SEGUE - Craters of the Moon and Roswell Cowboys
THE SYLVAN ECHO - Lunacy and Light
TATTOO HIGHWAY - The Language of Horns
UMBRELLA JOURNAL - Whale Holes and Belly Buttons
VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW - Breathless
XCONNECT - Ghosts of Hollywood
POETRY WRITTEN WITH JOHN F. BUCKLEY
CALLIOPE NERVE - Chiron in Los Angeles
ELEVEN ELEVEN - Pantsless in Boston
EVERGREEN REVIEW - The Last Fortune Teller of Chicago
POEMELEON - The Darlings of New Orleans
SCARS - School Trip to the Vegas Strip
A SPLASH OF RED - Lone Star Stomachache
SYNTAX - Objects in a Forgotten Cedar Point Lost-and-Found Locker
UMBRELLA JOURNAL - 15 Miles Outside the City Limits of Summervale, Alabama
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
NOTRE DAME REVIEW- On Poem "Doors"
SEGUE - On Poems "Craters of the Moon" and "Roswell Cowboys"
2010 UPDATES
Watch The Slush Pile - a short film co-written and co-produced by Martin Ott, about a Slush Pile that eats Hollywood and becomes what it fears most. Featured in two top 100 film blogs: Lair of the Green Knight and The Sci-fi Gene.
Martin's most recent screenplay "Twain" cowritten with Keith Kowalczyk won 2nd place for screenwriting in the 2010 Global Art Film Festival and Merit Winner in the 2010 Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood.
Martin has had short stories accepted in Alice Blue Review, The Literary Review, Los Angeles Review and Referential Magazine, and poetry in 2River View, 13 Miles from Cleveland, California Quarterly, Many Mountains Moving and Two Review.
His poem "Interrogator's Notebook" published in New Plains Review was also featured in the arts and science blog: 3QUARKSDAILY.
He has also been working on a poetry collaboration with Southern California poet John F. Buckley, and more than 20 of their poems have been accepted for publication, including 2010 acceptances in Apocryphal Text, Binnacle, Big Muddy, The Bicycle Review, CC&D Magazine, Dos Passos Review, Evergreen Review , Poemeleon, the Santa Clara Review, Syntax, Umbrella Journal, Untamed Ink and Zyzzyva.
"Children of Interrogation" was a 2010 finalist for the Idaho Prize for Poetry, Three Candle Press First Poetry Book Award and a semi-finalist in the Crab Orchard Review First Book Prize. 13th, 14th & 15th times as a bridesmaid!
CONTACT INFORMATION
Anyone interested in discussing this or any of Martin's other work, please email him at ottpops@gmail.com.
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