Martha Park is a writer and illustrator from Memphis, Tennessee. She received an MFA from the Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins University, and was the Spring 2016 Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University’s Stadler Center for Poetry. She has received fellowships from the Religion & Environment Story Project and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her collaborative illustrated journalism has been supported by grants from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. “Washed Away,” a comic about Kentucky landslides made with environmental journalist Austyn Gaffney, has been recognized with an EPPY Award for Best use of Data/Infographics and was a finalist for the Institute for Nonprofit News’ Insight Award for Visual Journalism. Martha’s writing, graphic essays, and illustrations have appeared in Oxford American, The Guardian, Guernica, The Bitter Southerner, Granta, Ecotone, ProPublica, and elsewhere. Her first book, a collection of essays, is forthcoming from Hub City Press in the Spring of 2025.