Stellar Alumni Reading Series: M.L. Martin and Hayden Casey

The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at ASU presents a reading by two of its star graduates: poet and translator M.L. Martin (MFA 2009) and fiction writer Hayden Casey (MFA 2022). The event takes place on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025, at 6 p.m. in Ross-Blakley Hall (RBHL), room 196 on ASU's Tempe campus. 

The event is part of the celebration of 2025 ASU Humanities Week and the Department of English's 125th anniversary. All are welcome.

About the stellar alumni

M.L. Martin is an interdisciplinary poet and translator who makes books, performances, installations, and sound art. Their current work, "W&E: A Refracted Translation of ‘Wulf and Eadwacer,’" is available now from Action Books and aims to recover a radical ancient text to the feminist, queer, and experimental canons to which it belongs. Their literary works appear in Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast, The Kenyon Review, The Literary Review, Poetry, and many other American, Australian, and Canadian journals. 

Martin’s work has received support from Bread Loaf, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Center for Book Arts, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, and Vermont Studio Center. They’re the founder of the Translation Now! Symposium and the Poetry Editor for Asymptote, and they live in Canada with a cat and a human.

Hayden Casey (he/him) is a writer and musician who lives and teaches in Phoenix, AZ. He holds an MFA in Fiction from Arizona State University. His short story collection, "Show Me Where the Hurt Is," was released with Split/Lip Press in spring 2025, and his novel, "A Harvest of Furies," is forthcoming from Lanternfish Press in fall 2025. 

Casey's short fiction has appeared in Witness, West Branch, Bat City Review, and elsewhere, and his long-form work has been shortlisted for the Dzanc Books Prize for Fiction.