B. 1986

Writer, comic artist, and illustrator Chelsea Martin was 23 when she published her first collection, Everything Was Fine until Whatever (2009), a genre-blurring book of short fiction, nonfiction, prose, poetry, sketches, and memoir. She is also the author of Caca Dolce (2017), Even Though I Don’t Miss You (2013), and The Real Funny Thing about Apathy (2010), among others.

In an interview with David Moscovich on wordriot.org, she listed some of her influences as “a small selection of rap music,” advertising, pop culture, outer space, line drawings, stand-up comedy, Julia Roberts, and “when someone says something and nobody hears it.”

Martin lives in Spokane, Washington and writes for Nylon, The Inlander, Electric Literature, and many other publications.