Martha King

Martha King, born in Virginia in 1937, attended Black Mountain College in 1955 and married the painter Basil King in 1958. She began writing in the late 1960s, after the birth of their two daughters.

In Brooklyn since 1968, King produced 31 issues of a free zine Giants Well in the Drizzle Play in the 1980s. She worked as an editor in mainstream book publishing, and for Poets & Writers, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, from which she retired in 2011. She blogs at www.marthaking-basilking.com.

She has published two collections of short stories, North & South (2007) and Little Tales of Family and War (1999). A collection of poetry, Imperfect Fit, was published in 2004. A long memoir, Outside Inside: Just Outside the Art World's Inside (2018), chapters of which were in Jacket #40 online, Bombay Gin, Blaze Vox, and New York Stories, received enthusiastic reviews. Currently she is writing whodunits featuring Max, a semi-successful New York artist who seems to attract trouble: Max Sees Red (2019) and Max Turns Yellow (2020