"What is most immediately striking is how much of the material arrives in beautifully observed, beautifully paced scene... I found myself giving over almost wholly to the scenes...because they were so immersive and rich."

--Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers and Enon, on Martha's fiction

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NEWS

Martha won the 2020 Petrichor Prize for Finely Crafted Fiction for her novel THREE MUSES, forthcoming from Regal House Publishing September 2022!

Regal House Publishing blog about the origins of Three Muses

Personal Essay: "Cleaning Out My Emotional Closet Feels Impossible" in Lilith Magazine Blog

Short Fiction: "Deep Blue" in Vol.1 Brooklyn

Review: "Refugee High" in The Washington Post

Review: "Names for Light" on NPR Books

Review: "I Named My Dog Pushkin on NPR Books

Review: "How the Word is Passed" in The Washington Post

Interview with author Maisy Card on Bloom

Interview with pianist Stephen Hough in Music & Literature


Sample earlier work:

Martha is featured in a podcast about her writing

​Martha moderated a panel of 5 writers discussing Brown in America: Community Culture and Code, at Austin's Malvern Books

Personal Essay: "Family Trees"

Personal Essay: "On Finding Myself at a Writing Residency in Southern France"

Martha interviewed for LitHub's "Secrets of the Book Critics" series

Review: "Heavy" by Kiese Laymon on NPR Books

Short Story: "Polymorphia" in Catapult