Cynthia Newberry Martin

Cynthia Newberry Martin is a fiction writer. Her first novel, The Painting Story, was a finalist in the 2008 Emory University Novel Contest. She is currently in a writing group led by Pam Houston. She is also at work on a new novel.

Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Contrary, StoryGlossia, The View From Here Magazine, Clapboard House, …On My Mind: A Georgia Writers Anthology, O Georgia: A Collection of Georgia’s Newest and Most Promising Writers, The Journal of Communication and The French Review.

She has worked individually with Dani Shapiro, as well as with Adam Braver and Howard Norman. In 2008 and 2009, she attended the Sirenland Writers Workshop. She has also attended the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, where she studied in 2005 with Charlie D’Ambrosio and in 2004 with Dorothy Allison. In the summers of 2001, 2002 and 2003, she attended the Fiction 3 master class at the New York State Summer Writers Institute, where she studied with Howard Norman, Andrea Barrett, Mary Gordon and Marilynne Robinson. In the summer of 1999, she attended the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, where she studied with Elizabeth McCracken.

Cynthia is also an attorney. She received her degree from the University of Georgia, where she was a member of the Georgia Law Review staff. Formerly, she practiced law at Hatcher Stubbs in Columbus, Georgia, and at King & Spalding in Atlanta. She graduated from Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina, with a major in French and Linguistics. She attended Westminster High School and Spring Street Elementary School in Atlanta.

She was born in Rapid City, South Dakota, and grew up in Atlanta. She now lives in Columbus, Georgia, with her husband and youngest son. Her daughter lives in Ft. Worth, Texas, and her other two sons are at school in California and Scotland.