Marta Knobloch is a poet and author whose work spans poetry, ecological fables for young people, plays, essays and critical reviews. She has written four award winning collections of poems, and has edited and contributed to literary journals and anthologies in the United States and abroad. Her work reflects a lifelong fascination with different countries and cultures which began as a child growing up in a military family assigned to numerous duty stations.
She studied with Sister Maura Eichner, the acclaimed Catholic poet, at The College of Notre Dame, now Notre Dame of Maryland University. With her husband, William Knobloch she raised two sons, Charles and Mark in Baltimore, Maryland where her life was devoted to family, writing, and community involvement. She lived in Bloomsbury while researching the life and work of the English poet, Lawrence Hope at the British Library’s iconic Reading Room. Invited to be a visiting poet at Fondazione Il Fiore in Florence, Italy, she later lived in Rome and Ferrara.
After her husband’s death she travelled to the American Southwest. What began as a search for family history became a spiritual journey inspired by the vast, luminous solitude of the minimalist landscape. A decade spent in the rugged Big Bend of Texas gave her a profound sense of the high desert as both desolate and numinous. Marta now makes her home in Taos, New Mexico where she continues to write poems endeavoring to capture moments of stillness, revelation and connection with the land’s daunting presence.