Martin Ott
Creative Playground
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A former U.S. Army interrogator, Martin Ott currently lives in Los Angeles and still finds himself asking a lot of questions.
His fiction and poetry has appeared in more than 100 publications, including the Anthology of Monterey Poets, Canteen, Center, Cimarron Review, Confrontation Magazine, the Connecticut Review, Eleven Eleven, Evergreen Review, forpoetry.com, Hayden's Ferry Review, Harvard Review, Hotel Amerika, The Literary Review, Los Angeles Review, Many Mountains Moving, Margie, Mudfish, 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.
His book of poetry "Captive" won the 2011 De Novo Prize and will be published by C&R Press in 2012. "Poets' Guide to America" - co-written with John F. Buckley - will be published by Brooklyn Arts Press in 2012.
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.
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
FICTION
ALICE BLUE - The Walking Man's Apprentice
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
POETSPEAK - Confused Grandmother Puts Child through Airport X-ray
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
THE COACHELLA REVIEW - The Books of Hazard
ELEVEN ELEVEN - Pantless in Boston
EVERGREEN REVIEW - The Last Fortune Teller of Chicago
GLINT - Monsters, Wyrms and Snakes of the Five Great Lakes
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
VERSE WISCONSIN - Brother and Sister in Baraboo
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
NOTRE DAME REVIEW- On Poem "Doors"
SEGUE - On Poems "Craters of the Moon" and "Roswell Cowboys"
2011 UPDATES
His book of poetry "Captive" won the 2011 De Novo Prize and will be published by C&R Press in 2012.
"Poets' Guide to America" - co-written with John F. Buckley - will be published by Brooklyn Arts Press in 2012.
His screenplay "Twain" - cowritten with Keith Kowalczyk, was named a finalist in the Berverly Hills Film Festival.
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.
TWITTER:
Follow me at: http://twitter.com/ottpops
CONTACT INFORMATION
EMAIL: ottpops@gmail.com
bravenet.com