Manjula Martin is a writer and editor. Manjula Martin is author of The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History. She is coauthor of Fruit Trees for Every Garden, which won the 2020 American Horticultural Society Book Award.

Martin was previously managing editor of Francis Ford Coppola’s literary and art magazine, Zoetrope: All-Story, which during her tenure won the National Magazine Award for fiction, and she has been an editorial contributor to Playboy (for the articles). She has worked in varied editorial and writing capacities with nonprofit organizations, arts organizations, publishers, and authors.

Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Cut, Pacific Standard, Aeon Magazine, Hazlitt, Nieman Storyboard, and The Awl, among other publications.

She was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California and has lived in San Francisco, New York, Paris, Boston, and Portland, Oregon. She now resides in western Sonoma County.