Jameel Martin is an accomplished violist, poet, and scholar. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he completed his pre-college and undergraduate studies with Heidi Castleman, and studied chamber music with Itzhak Perlman, Joel Krosnick, and Sylvia Rosenberg. Under the guidance of Mónica De la Torre and Ben Lerner, he received an MFA in Poetry from Brooklyn College, where he was also an Adjunct Lecturer of English Composition and editor-in-chief/poetry editor of The Brooklyn Review. He later earned an MA in Performance Studies at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where he was research assistant to his advisor, Fred Moten.

Jameel is currently a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at NYU, where he researches ekphrasis, redaction, fugitive poetics, and “ghost genealogies” in the classical archive. His poetry, criticism, and interviews can be found in A Common Well Journal, Archway Editions Journal, The Brooklyn Review, and Fort Myers Review.