However, he also writes a fair amount of free verse and therefore might be aptly characterized as a formalist with anarchic tendencies. Marty was the winner of the 2014 Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award and has poems in recent issues of Measure and Teaching English at the Two-Year College. Marty is also the founder and owner of Steyer Associates, Inc., a staffing firm that supplies content professionals (writers, editors, program managers, etc.) to high-tech companies in the Seattle and the San Francisco Bay area. Marty earned degrees at UC Berkeley and Harvard University and has attended the Bread Loaf Sicily, Tin House, and Sewanee writers’ conferences.