"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

"Family Trees" new personal essay

"The Gigolo" new short story

"My Father Died Before I Could Say Goodbye" new personal essay in the Washington Post's The Lily

"Cleanness" on NPR Books

"Here We Are" on NPR Books

"The Yellow House" on NPR Books

New personal essay:  "Memorizing and Memory: A Writer's Estranged Cousins"

Martha has been awarded a 2020 Residency at the Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow.

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


Recently published:

Short story:  "The House with the Plexiglas Frame"

Interview with Randon Billings Noble in The Millions

"When We Were Arabs" on NPR Books

Interview with Kendra Allen in The Rumpus

Interview with Glory Edim/Well Read Black Girl in The Millions

"Heavy," book review on NPR Books


Sample earlier publications:

"Polymorphia," short story in Catapult

"When Home is Elsewhere," personal essay in Cargo Literary

"Before America," short story/novel excerpt in Slush Pile Magazine

"At the Ballet," short story/novel excerpt in Vol.1 Brooklyn