Chelsea Martin

She received a BFA from California College of the Arts in 2008.[2]

She is the author of Everything Was Fine Until Whatever (Future Tense Books, 2009), The Really Funny Thing About Apathy (Sunnyoutside, 2010),[3] Kramer Sutra (Universal Error, 2012), and Even Though I Don't Miss You (Short Flight/Long Drive Books, 2013), which was named one of the Best Indie Books of 2013 by Dazed Magazine[4] and was a small press bestseller.[5] Her work has also appeared in numerous journals including Poetry Foundation,[6] Hobart (magazine), Lena Dunham's newsletter Lenny Letter[7] Vice'[8] and the Alt lit Anthology '’40 Likely To Die Before 40.'’[9]

Her work has been described as "emotionally honest",[10] "provocative and disturbing",[11] and, "less disaffected than the Alt lit peers she's associated with."[12] Her work has often been compared to that of Harmony Korine.[13][14]

Nylon Magazine said her work "feels like a meditation on consciousness, feeling, and of course, the absence of both,"[15] and Publishers Weekly called The Really Funny Thing About Apathy "a fixation on fleeting incidents in the life of the young and fearful."[16]

• Everything Was Fine Until Whatever (Future Tense Books, 2009) ISBN 978-1892061355
• The Really Funny Thing About Apathy (Sunnyoutside Press, 2010) ISBN 978-1934513248
• Even Though I Don't Miss You (Short Flight/Long Drive Books, 2013) ISBN 978-0989695008
• Mickey (Curbside Splendor, 2016) ISBN 978-1940430737
• Caca Dolce (Soft Skull Press, 2017) ISBN 978-1593766771
• Tell Me I’m an Artist (Soft Skull Press, 2022) ISBN 978-1593767211

Martin is a comic artist. Her comic Heavy-Handed was published bi-weekly on The Rumpus in 2012 and 2013.[17] She is also the illustrator of the book of poetry Four-Letter Poems by Joshua Brandon (Universal Error, 2011).

In 2010, Martin founded the art collective Universal Error,[18] where she is currently Creative Director.[19]

Martin has self-published several chapbooks and comic books, and is a proponent of self-publishing.[20]

• Official website
• Universal Error
• McDonald's is Impossible at The Poetry Foundation
• Heavy-Handed
• Interview on The Rumpus
• Interview at Word Riot
• Dream Date on Pequin