| Chelsea Martin | |
| Birth Date: | July 16, 1986 |
| Birth Place: | Santa Rosa, California |
| Occupation: | Author, artist |
| Nationality: | American |
| Education: | California College of the Arts (BFA) |
| Genre: | Alt lit |
| Notableworks: | Even Though I Don't Miss You |
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]