Now an international teacher, Martin's current schedule includes New Mexico, California, Minnesota, and Oregon as well as Europe and the United Kingdom. He is also a visiting lecturer on the Stategic Leadership Programme at Templeton College Oxford.
His awards include the Summerfield award from the British School in Rome, the Price, Bretherton, Elgood award for outstanding achievement in the Arts, and the Robert BIy GMC scholarship.
He is the author of *A Branch from the Lightning Tree: Wilderness. Myth, and the Life Not Yet
Lived*, available 2008 . He is currently working on 'The Red King and the Witch: Darkness and Longing in the Myth World'
"Martin is a teacher of rare and fierce beauty.
'A
Branch from the Lightning Tree' is an oceanic dive into the mythic
fire-on myths own terms" Daniel Deardorff, Author and mythologist.
"Shaw encourages the teeth of professors to fall out and the teeth of
the young to grow. He stands up for the old, shaggy line of
storytellers, and does so elegantly" Robert Bly, Author and prize
winning poet.