Chelsea Martin | |
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Born | Santa Rosa, California | July 16, 1986
Occupation | Author, artist |
Nationality | American |
Education | California College of the Arts ( BFA) |
Genre | Alt lit |
Notable works | Even Though I Don't Miss You |
Website | |
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Chelsea Martin (born July 16, 1986) is an American author and illustrator. [1]
She received a BFA from California College of the Arts in 2008. [2]
She is the author of Everything Was Fine Until Whatever (Future Tense Books, 2009), The Really Funny Thing About Apathy (Sunnyoutside, 2010), [3] Kramer Sutra (Universal Error, 2012), and Even Though I Don't Miss You ( Short Flight/Long Drive Books, 2013), which was named one of the Best Indie Books of 2013 by Dazed Magazine [4] and was a small press bestseller. [5] Her work has also appeared in numerous journals including Poetry Foundation, [6] Hobart (magazine), Lena Dunham's newsletter Lenny Letter [7] Vice' [8] and the Alt lit Anthology '’40 Likely To Die Before 40.'’ [9]
Her work has been described as "emotionally honest", [10] "provocative and disturbing", [11] and, "less disaffected than the Alt lit peers she's associated with." [12] Her work has often been compared to that of Harmony Korine. [13] [14]
Nylon Magazine said her work "feels like a meditation on consciousness, feeling, and of course, the absence of both," [15] and Publishers Weekly called The Really Funny Thing About Apathy "a fixation on fleeting incidents in the life of the young and fearful." [16]
Martin is a comic artist. Her comic Heavy-Handed was published bi-weekly on The Rumpus in 2012 and 2013. [17] She is also the illustrator of the book of poetry Four-Letter Poems by Joshua Brandon (Universal Error, 2011).
In 2010, Martin founded the art collective Universal Error, [18] where she is currently Creative Director. [19]
Martin has self-published several chapbooks and comic books, and is a proponent of self-publishing. [20]