Martin Rock is Associate Director of Communications at the Exploratorium, where he works with a community of scientists, artists, and tinkerers to cultivate confidence and push through barriers to learning. A recipient of fellowships from NYU, University of Houston, and InPrint, he is the author of Residuum (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2015), Dear Mark (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013), and a collaborative chapbook with Phillip D. Ischy, Fish, You Bird (Pilot, 2010). With Kevin Prufer and Martha Collins he edited the Unsung Masters book Catherine Breese Davis: On the Life and Work of an American Master. Recent poetry can be found in Best American Experimental Writing 2018, Copper Nickel, and Colorado Review.