An Interview with Melanie Marttila
I had the great opportunity to talk to Canadian poet Melanie Marttila just before the launch of her new poetry collection The Art of Floating. In today’s interview, we discuss speculative poetry, small local writing groups, and writing for a community. We talk about disability, ageing, and neurodiversity.
Melanie Marttila (she/her) is an #actuallyaustitic SFF author-in-progress, writing poetry and tales of hope in the face of adversity. She has been writing since the age of seven, when she made her first submission to CBC’s “Pencil Box.” She is a graduate of the University of Windsor’s masters program in English Literature and Creative Writing and her poetry has appeared in Polar Borealis, Polar Starlight, and Sulphur. Her short fiction has appeared in Pulp Literature, On Spec, Pirating Pups, and Home for the Howlidays. She lives and writes in Sudbury, Ontario, in the house where three generations of her family have lived, on the street that bears her surname, with her spouse and their dog, Torvi.
My social media contacts:
Substack: Alchemy Ink
blog: Always Looking Up
Facebook: https://facebook.com/melanie.marttila
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melaniemarttila/
Threads: https://www.threads.net/@melaniemarttila
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/melaniemarttila.bsky.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-marttila-20868047
Interviewed by Derek Newman-Stille, MA, PhD (ABD) (They/them)
