Kristen Martin

Kristen Martin is a writer and cultural critic. Her writing has been published in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, NPR, Lapham’s Quarterly, The Believer, The Baffler, and elsewhere. Kristen is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the Freelance Solidarity Project.

Kristen has received an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University, and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Università degli Scienze Gastronomiche in Italy, where she was a Fulbright-Casten Family Scholar. Her work has been supported by residencies at Yaddo and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Kristen has also taught writing at the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, Columbia University, and CUNY Baruch College, as well as for the Philadelphia literary community Blue Stoop.