Martin Walls was born in Brighton, and grew up in the sister town of Hove in Southern England. His poems have appeared in Boulevard, The Nation, The Gettysburg Review, Five Points, Passages North, and elsewhere. Walls was chosen as a Witter Bynner Fellow by Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. Also a recipient of a 1998 Joan Leiman Jacobsen "Discovery" award from The Nation, Walls has published two books of poems: Small Human Detail in Care of National Trust (New Issues Press, 2000) and Commonwealth (March Street Press, 2005). Walls is a magazine editor and also a professional soccer referee. He lives in Solvay, N.Y.