Bio
Marta is a teen librarian working in the Pacific Northwest. She grew up watching Star Trek reruns and grade B monster movies and graduated to pulp fiction. She loves a good apocalypse and a hard-boiled mystery. Her pronouns are she, her and hers.
Prior to earning her Master's in Library Science, Marta was an award-winning newspaper journalist recognized regionally for her investigative reporting and feature writing by The Associated Press and by the Society of Professional Journalists. She has won awards for her coverage of open government, drug addiction, homelessness, and environmental issues.
She continues to commit nonfiction on occasion in national magazines, including Library Journal and School Library Journal.
Her short fiction appears in Abyss & Apex and the anthologies Tales of the Sunrise Lands, an Anthology of Japanese Fantasy (2017, Guardbridge Books,) and Legends of the Mountain State: Ghostly Tales of West Virginia, edited by Stoker-winner Michael Knost (Woodland Press, 2007.)
She has organized Rapid Fire Readings for Broad Universe and has served as the nonprofit's treasurer since June 2018. She is a member of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA,) and other professional groups.
She will talk anywhere, anytime about books, teen services, technology, digital literacy, digital citizenship, information literacy, research and writing.
To see what she's up to in the library or online, click on Projects or Links or Pulp & Pixels.
Prior to earning her Master's in Library Science, Marta was an award-winning newspaper journalist recognized regionally for her investigative reporting and feature writing by The Associated Press and by the Society of Professional Journalists. She has won awards for her coverage of open government, drug addiction, homelessness, and environmental issues.
She continues to commit nonfiction on occasion in national magazines, including Library Journal and School Library Journal.
Her short fiction appears in Abyss & Apex and the anthologies Tales of the Sunrise Lands, an Anthology of Japanese Fantasy (2017, Guardbridge Books,) and Legends of the Mountain State: Ghostly Tales of West Virginia, edited by Stoker-winner Michael Knost (Woodland Press, 2007.)
She has organized Rapid Fire Readings for Broad Universe and has served as the nonprofit's treasurer since June 2018. She is a member of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA,) and other professional groups.
She will talk anywhere, anytime about books, teen services, technology, digital literacy, digital citizenship, information literacy, research and writing.
To see what she's up to in the library or online, click on Projects or Links or Pulp & Pixels.