Manjula Martin is a writer and editor. Her memoir, The Last Fire Season; A Personal and Pyronatural History, is out now from Pantheon Books.

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

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

Martin 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, and she has been an editorial contributor to Playboy (for the articles). She has worked in varied editorial and writing capacities with nonprofit organizations, arts organizations, publishers, and authors.

Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other publications.

She was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California and has lived in San Francisco, New York, Paris, Boston, and Portland, Oregon. She now resides in western Sonoma County.

It's pronounced “Mahn-juh-luh."

Short bio, for press or other abbreviated purposes:  

Manjula Martin is author of The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History. She is coauthor of Fruit Trees for Every Garden, which won the 2020 American Horticultural Society Book Award. Martin edited the anthology Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living, and she was managing editor of the National Magazine Award–winning literary journal Zoetrope: All-Story. She lives in western Sonoma County, California.