"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

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

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

Review: "Walking on Cowrie Shells" on NPR Books

Interview with author Maisy Card on Bloom

Interview with death penalty lawyer Marc Bookman in the Los Angeles Review of Books

Review: "We Are Bridges" on NPR Books

Review: "Creatures of Passage," by Morowa Yejidé in the Washington Post

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

"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


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

My 2020 "Year in Reading" in The Millions

Personal Essay: "Family Trees"

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

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

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

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