Michael Martrich

Michael Martrich is a writer and musician from Eastern Pennsylvania who now lives in Dakar, Senegal. His debut novel-length work listed here is The Hole in the Den, published by BlazeVOX in 2017. The book follows Tory Spry, a teenager in a depressed Pennsylvania suburb, as his hallucinations grow more frequent. He also released a music album, A Night I Could Have Sworn Was an Ocean Floor (2016), with his band Sports for Kin. His short fiction appeared in BlazeVOX's Spring 2015 issue. A 2020 Full Stop review-interview discussed his later collection The Ideal Moment for a Sneeze.