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"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

NEWS

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

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

Regal House Publishing blog about the origins of Three Muses

My 2020 "Year in Reading" in The Millions

Personal Essay: "Don't Just Pass 'Em By" in Bloom

Essay: "Sibling Transgressions and the Surrender of Language: Sulaiman Addonia and Aharon Appelfeld," in Triangle House Review

Review: "The Piano Student," by Lea Singer, transl. by Elisabeth Lauffer in Washington Independent Review of Books

Review: "At Night All Blood is Black," by David Diop, transl. by Anna Moschovakis on Words Without Borders

Review: "The Book Collectors," by Delphine Minoui, transl. by Lara Vergnaud on NPR Books

Review: "Let My People Vote," by Desmond Meade on NPR Books

"Dayenu: Dispatches from the Covid Sick Ward,", Martha's personal essay, featured in Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort During the Time of COVID-19.

Interview with pianist Stephen Hough in Music & Literature

Personal Essay: "Family Trees"



Sample earlier publications:

Martha is featured in a podcast about her writing

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


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

Personal Essay: "My Father Died Before I Could Say Goodbye"

Short Story: "The House with the Plexiglas Frame" in Vol.1 Brooklyn

Review: "Heavy" by Kiese Laymon on NPR Books

Short Story: "Polymorphia" in Catapult


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