Martha Silano has authored seven poetry books, including Gravity Assist (Saturnalia Books, 2019), The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception, winner of the 2010 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize and a Washington State Book Award finalist, and Reckless Lovely (Saturnalia Books, 2014), and most recently, Terminal Surreal (Acre Books, 2025). She also co-authored, with Kelli Russell Agodon, The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice. Silano's poems have appeared in Poetry, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Paris Review, AGNI, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review Online, Blackbird, Cop