About

Chandra Martin writes fiction that knows where the bodies are buried – and what they left behind.

Born and raised in Georgia, Martin discovered storytelling before she had the words to match her imagination. Once she mastered language, the stories came pouring out – much to the delight of her parents. When she learned to write, it was a metaphorical stampede.

Her first recognition came early. In fourth grade, her school librarian was so moved by a poem Chandra wrote and dedicated to her that she entered it into a Georgia Poetry Society competition. That honorable mention became her first taste of literary affirmation outside her family – and she never stopped writing. Over the years, she filled boxes with notebooks and notepads brimming with ideas, scenes, and concepts spanning her favorite genres: mystery, horror, spirituality, fantasy, and science fiction.

A Black storyteller working at the intersection of history, memory, and the supernatural, Martin crafts worlds where the past refuses to stay past, where faith and violence live in the same breath, and where love leaves marks that outlast the people who gave it. Her literary speculative fiction roots the extraordinary in the deeply human – the kind of human that Black readers recognize in their grandmothers, their childhood homes, their own survival. Her prose moves with quiet precision through atmospheric Southern landscapes and imagined realms alike, always circling the same essential truth: the places we inhabit hold us long after we leave.

Now she is opening the box and inviting the world into the theater of her vibrant mind.

When she is not plotting to conquer Alpha Centauri Cb as its one and only Queen Unicorn, Chandra can be found cooking, watching anime, reading manga, playing easygoing PC games on her desktop – affectionately known as The Black Beast – and wandering through libraries. She also maintains a fascination with the occult, from a safe, non-haunted distance.