Manjula Martin is a writer and editor. She is, most recently, author of the bestselling hybrid memoir The Last Fire Season; A Personal and Pyronatural History, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Northern California Book Award. At present, she edits at ZYZZYVA and is at work on her next book, a novel.

Manjula Martin Photo by Carolyn Fong

Photo by Carolyn Fong


Official bio:

Manjula Martin is author of The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Northern California Book 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, Orion, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other publications. She lives in California.

It's pronounced “Måhn-juh-luh."