Manjula Martin is a writer and editor. She is the author of The Last Fire Season; A Personal and Pyronatural History, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Martin is coauthor, with her father, Orin Martin, of Fruit Trees for Every Garden (Ten Speed Press, 2019), winner of the 2020 American Horticultural Society Book Award.

Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Los Angeles Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other publications. She lives in California.

Martin edited the anthology Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living (Simon & Schuster, 2017) and founded the online magazine of the same name (2013–2016). She is senior editor of ZYZZYVA, and she was previously managing editor of Francis Ford Coppola’s literary journal, Zoetrope: All-Story, which during her tenure won the National Magazine Award for fiction. She has worked in varied editorial and writing capacities with nonprofit organizations, arts organizations, publishers, and authors.

In 2012 she founded the crowd-sourced website "Who pays writers?" and in 2020 she donated the site to the Freelance Solidarity Project.

It's pronounced “Måhn-juh-luh."

Shorter bio, for press or other abbreviated purposes:  

Manjula Martin is author of The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is coauthor of Fruit Trees for Every Garden, winner of the American Horticultural Society Book Award. Martin edited the anthology Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living. She is senior editor of ZYZZYVA and was previously managing editor of Zoetrope: All-Story . Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, and other publications. She lives in California.