When she’s not in New York, Martha lives with her husband in Castiglione del Terziere, a medieval village in Lunigiana, Italy. Martha has lectured and led fiction workshops in Milan, Cortona, Siena, Certaldo, and Cremona; in Cortona, she curated literary events at the...
She is a Professor of English at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, and was for fifteen years a member of the core faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars in Bennington, Vermont. She has also taught in the MA programs in creative writing at Boston...
Martha lives in Forest Hills (Queens), New York, with her husband Antonio Romani and their cat, Zora, named after one of the cities in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities.
Martha is one of the recipients of the 2017 O. Henry Prize for her short story “Mercedes Benz.” This year’s volume of the O. Henry Prize Stories can be seen here with additional information about the prize and its recipients....
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