Jeff Martin is an author, editor, and Founder/Executive Director of the Tulsa Literary Coalition and Magic City Books. His books include The Customer is Always Wrong: The Retail Chronicles (Soft Skull Press), a National Book Critics Circle Award nominee and a Shelf Awareness Book of the Year and The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books (Counterpoint), praised in the New Yorker, The Economist, and called “funny, poignant, relentlessly thought-provoking” by The Atlantic. He is a contributor to Publishers Weekly, Poets & Writers, Salon.com, and National Public Radio. Most recently his poetry appeared in the new anthology, The Eloquent Poem (Persea) edited by Elise Paschen.
PEN America in Tulsa
Recent Events
Quinn Carver Johnson in Conversation
PEN Tulsa welcomes Tulsa poet Quinn Carver Johnson to Magic City Books to celebrate their debut poetry collection, The Perfect Bastard. More…
Meet Your Media: Creating a More Informed and Equitable Society
Join PEN Tulsa for an enlightening dialogue on bridging the gap between the media and the Tulsa community. More…
Flashpoints: Free Speech in American History, Culture and Society
Timed to mark both PEN America’s 100th anniversary in 2022 and the lead-up to the U.S. semiquincentennial, the event series will run for two years from 2022-2023, and the digital resources will be available to educators and the public for years to come. More…
[Virtual] The Media’s Role in the Era of Book Bans
Join us for a thought-provoking panel on the crucial role Black media can play in fostering conversations regarding the banning of Black books More…