Martha Burns’s first novel, Blind Eye, was a Spur Finalist for Contemporary Novel and in October 2024 won the NM-AZ Book Award in category “Fiction-Other.” Her new novel Across the Narrows was released in 2024.
Coming soon — the Blind Eye Audio Book. Listen to a snippet here:
About the Author
Martha Burns, a native and resident of New Mexico, earned a Doctor of Letters with distinction from Drew University and won the Faulkner-Wisdom Gold Medal for Short Story. Martha is the mother of two daughters and now has four grandchildren. She and her husband lived and worked in La Luz, New Mexico, New Jersey, Hawaii, California, and Switzerland and she now lives in Santa Fe with her two Jack Russell Terriers. Her first novel, Blind Eye was a finalist for the Spur Award for Contemporary Fiction. Her new novel Across the Narrows was released in February 2024. She is pleased to be back at work on her third novel set on Oahu, Hawaii in the summer of 1985.
