Chelsea Martin

Chelsea Martin (born 1986 in California) is an American author and illustrator.^[1]

Early life

She received a BFA from California College of the Arts in 2008.^[2]

Career

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 the work 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 Publisher's Weekly called The Really Funny Thing About Apathy "a fixation on fleeting incidents in the life of the young and fearful."^[16]

Works and publications

• Everything Was Fine Until Whatever (Future Tense Books, 2009) ISBN 978-1892061355
• The Really Funny Thing About Apathy (Sunnyoutside Press, 2010) ISBN 978-1934513248
• Even Though I Don't Miss You (Short Flight/Long Drive Books, 2013) ISBN 978-0989695008
• Mickey (Curbside Splendor, 2016) ISBN 978-1940430737

Other Work

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]

References

External links

• Official website
• Universal Error
• McDonald's is Impossible at The Poetry Foundation
• Heavy-Handed
• Interview on The Rumpus
• Interview at Word Riot
• Dream Date on Pequin