Martina Madden is an emerging writer and a resident of East Cork, originally from Cork city.
She works in the heritage and museum sector and is inspired by her creative surroundings.
Writing about her life, people and places that are integral to her, Martina draws on her creative
professional career, memory, the outdoors, her childhood and life experience. Her writing delves into difficult and emotive subject matter but always tries to keep the reader engaged and even sometimes surprised. Her focus in her writing, primarily in poetry, is to strive for clarity and honesty.
She is delighted to have been published for the first time in 2025 in a number of literary journals
including Ragaire Literary Magazine Issue 3, The Stony Thursday Book Issue 50, a number of
local social and historical publications and also has a publication forthcoming in an anthology
with the Quillkeepers Press.
In the last number of years Martina has participated in many project based initiatives and works
to continue her development as a writer.
