Short answers, pulled from the story.
Marcus Valerius Martialis was born in the town of Augusta Bilbilis, now known as Calatayud, during March between 38 and 41 AD. He described himself as sprung from the Celts and Iberians, a countryman of the Tagus river.
Martial moved to Rome from Hispania in AD 64 after completing his education because the success of his countrymen likely motivated this move to the capital. The success of his fellow writers from Roman Hispania inspired him to seek opportunities in the city.
Domitian granted Marcus Valerius Martialis various privileges including the semestris tribunatus which conferred equestrian rank. Martial failed however in his application to Domitian for more substantial advantages beyond these initial grants.
Marcus Valerius Martialis wrote a total of 1,561 epigrams with 1,235 composed in elegiac couplets. His keen curiosity and power of observation manifested clearly in these short poems that document daily life in imperial Rome.
Marcus Valerius Martialis lived at first up three flights of stairs where garret overlooked laurels in front of portico of Agrippa before moving to a small house on Quirinal near temple of Quirinus. He also maintained a small villa and unproductive farm near Nomentum in Sabine territory to which he occasionally retired from pestilence boors and noises of city.