Martha Burns lives and writes in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her 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, published by Atmosphere Press, was released in February 2024.
The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge spans the Narrows, a body of water linking the New York Harbor with the Lower New York Bay.
About the Author
Martha Burns, a native 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.
