Martha Grace Duncan is the author of the critically acclaimed book, Romantic Outlaws, Beloved Prisons.  Much of her academic writing uses literature and psychoanalysis to illuminate criminal law.  It has been published in the California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, and Harvard Journal of Law and Gender and has been quoted in the New Yorker and in numerous judicial opinions.

In her memoirs and creative nonfiction, Duncan writes about her nomadic childhood and her beloved father’s transformation from a playful, protective parent into a paranoid, dangerous lawbreaker.  She has published personal stories in the Appalachian Review, Five Points, the Gettysburg Review, Notre Dame Magazine, Passages North, and the Tampa Review.  Currently, she is completing a book-length memoir, Death of a Dreamer, about her journey to unravel the mystery of her father’s life. 

Duncan is a Professor of Law and a Professor of Psychoanalysis at Emory University, in Atlanta.  She earned a Ph.D. at Columbia University and a J.D. at Yale Law School.  In addition, she studied at the NYU Psychoanalytic Institute at NYU Medical Center.