Martine Wolfe-Miller

Martine Wolfe-Miller was born in the French southern town of Tarbes where she grew up with the snow-capped Pyrenees Mountains as a magnificent backdrop.

She majored in French literature and studied classical languages, Greek and Latin. At an early age, Martine was entranced by mythology and literature and the enticing worlds they unlocked. A voracious reader, she spent endless hours at the library, learning French classics and dreaming of adventures.

A family connection with a Minnesotan exchange student opened doors and an educational path to America. After a five-year hiatus working on a farm, raising sheep and honey bees, Martine graduated from the University of Scranton, Pennsylvania, with a degree in French and English.

She wrote articles for a local weekly newspaper before managing a competing print media. After nearly 15 years enjoying Pennsylvania, Martine moved to South Carolina with her two children, Nathaniel and Gabrielle.

She has put her writing and communications skills to good use since her relocation to the Charleston area. With more than 17 years of experience in government public relations, she looked to new challenges and took to the more intimate pursuit of novel writing.

The Hurricane Stew is her first novel, a fictional work set in the South she has loved and called home for nearly two decades. The Hurricane Stew earned the William Faulkner Literary Competition Awards - Best Novel in 2016.

The story is set in the midst of the largest hurricane landfall to strike the Carolina Coast. Four unlikely allies join forces and foil the plans of an art thief and uncover a secret that could shake the art world.

The Hurricane Stew is a fast-paced Southern mystery novel set in a genteel costal town veiled in a proud past. The novel spreads its web of scholarly intrigue across two continents and over six centuries, back to High Renaissance Italy.

Martine is now writing her second novel, titled The Bottom of the Jar. It is steeped in her family lore and the years her maternal grandparents spent in the French Protectorate country of Tunisia. Set during the Algerian War of Independence that inflamed the Maghreb in the early 1960’s, The Bottom of the Jar recalls the epic clash of two cultures and belief systems and the characters of both faiths caught in the middle.

Martine lives in South Carolina with her husband Nick and her cat Sherlock.

Photo credit: Nick Miller

Martine Wolfe-Miller was born in the French southern town of Tarbes where she grew up with the snow-capped Pyrenees Mountains as a magnificent backdrop.

She majored in French literature and studied classical languages, Greek and Latin. At an early age, Martine was entranced by mythology and literature and the enticing worlds they unlocked. A voracious reader, she spent endless hours at the library, learning French classics and dreaming of adventures.

A family connection with a Minnesotan exchange student opened doors and an educational path to America. After a five-year hiatus working on a farm, raising sheep and honey bees, Martine graduated from the University of Scranton, Pennsylvania, with a degree in French and English.

She wrote articles for a local weekly newspaper before managing a competing print media. After nearly 15 years enjoying Pennsylvania, Martine moved to South Carolina with her two children, Nathaniel and Gabrielle.

She has put her writing and communications skills to good use since her relocation to the Charleston area. With more than 17 years of experience in government public relations, she looked to new challenges and took to the more intimate pursuit of novel writing.

The Hurricane Stew is her first novel, a fictional work set in the South she has loved and called home for nearly two decades.

The story is set in the midst of the largest hurricane landfall to strike the Carolina Coast. Four unlikely allies join forces and foil the plans of an art thief and uncover a secret that could shake the art world.

The Hurricane Stew is a fast-paced Southern mystery novel set in a genteel costal town veiled in a proud past. The novel spreads its web of scholarly intrigue across two continents and over six centuries, back to High Renaissance Italy.

Martine is now writing her second novel, titled The Bottom of the Jar. It is steeped in her family lore and the years her maternal grandparents spent in the French Protectorate country of Tunisia. Set during the Algerian War of Independence that inflamed the Maghreb in the early 1960’s, The Bottom of the Jar recalls the epic clash of two cultures and belief systems and the characters of both faiths caught in the middle.

Martine lives in South Carolina with her husband Nick and her cat Sherlock.

Photo credit: Nick Miller