Chip Martin

Chip Martin was born in Philadelphia, grew up in California and has lived principally in London since the early 1970s. His sequences of novellas are published by Starhaven, an award-winning small press of which he was co-founder; other Starhaven books which he has edited include Poems from Dry Creek by John Dofflemyer, Dickeyville by Joe Abbott, The Young Romantics by Linda Kelly, Rivers of Heaven by Anthony Gardner and Becoming English by Eva Tucker. As Stoddard Martin he is a critic and editor and has been a professor of English and American literature at University of Warsaw and preceptor of expository writing at Harvard.

'San Francisco has been the home to a self-conscious Bohemia since Mark Twain and Bret Harte set up camp there in the 1860s and the Bohemian Club first sojourned under the redwood trees in 1872. Over a century later Chip Martin moved from San Francisco to London with the full weight of this tradition on his shoulders, and steadily produced a series of interlinking stories and novellas... imbued with an awareness of the difficulty of living a bohemian life in contemporary Europe, and this difficulty became his subject.'

- Christina Petrie, 'Bohemian pretenders', Times Literary Supplement, 22 xi 2013