courtney e. martin
Courtney E. Martin is a writer originally from Colorado Springs, Colorado. Her book, Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body, was published on Simon & Schuster's Free Press in April 2007 and in the UK and Norway in May.
She writes for a range of national publications, including Newsweek, Newsday, Alternet, The Christian Science Monitor, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Utne Reader, Women's eNews, Poets & Writers, Publisher's Weekly, BUST, Bitch, and ReadyMade, among others. Courtney is also a contributing blogger for Crucial Minutiae and Feministing.
Courtney's been honored with the ChoiceUSA Setting the Message Straight Award, the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics, and fellowships from the Puffin Foundation, the Clark Foundation, and the Oral History Association. In addition, she is a Woodhull fellow.
Her essays have appeared in the following anthologies: We Don't Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists (Seal Press), Generation What?: Dispatches from the Quarter-Life Crisis (Speck Press), and A 21st Century Ethical Toolbox (Oxford University Press).
Courtney has an M.A. from the Gallatin School at New York University in writing and social change and a B.A. from Barnard College in political science and sociology. She spent six months studying in Cape Town, South Africa. She is currently an adjunct professor of gender studies at Hunter College where she enjoys her students' antics thoroughly.
When she isn't working, which is not nearly enough of the time, she is daydreaming about playing the blues harmonica, cooking dinner with her big brother, or making video documentaries with her boyfriend in Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn. Oh, or conspiring to create unselfconscious dance parties.
