Agustin D. Martinez was born in Panama after his family fled post-revolutionary Cuba in the spring of 1960. The family eventually found their way to Miami where Martinez grew up in a bilingual household. He has worked as a teacher, translator, and school administrator. He has published work in the Arcadia Literary Journal, The Binnacle, The 34th Parallel Magazine, The Write Room, Apropos Literary Journal, The Adirondack Review, Press 1, Review Americana, and Hinchas de Poesia. He has two one-act plays to his credit: Blasphemous Rumors, published by Off the Walls Play Publishers, and Ham and Eggs, published in Palooka Journal.