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Early life and education
Born in 1993, Eternity Martis is a journalist and author from Toronto, Ontario. She went to Western University where she earned a double honours BA (English Language and Literature and Women's Studies and Feminist Research) and a Certificate in writing at Western University and Ryerson University for a graduate degree in Journalism. Martis identifies as a Black woman with mixed heritage; her father is Jamaican and her mother is of Pakistani origin.

Career
As a journalist, Eternity was a senior editor at Xtra Magazine and her work has Vice, Salon, Hazlitt, TVO.org, The Walrus, Huffington Post and CBC. Eternity writes about issues surrounding gender and race. She published her debut memoir, They said this would be fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing up with McLelland and Stewart in March 2020. It was subsequently nominated and won several awards. Her academic career has included teaching posts at Ryerson University in the School of Journalism, and she was the 2021 Asper Visiting Professor and Journalist-in-Residence at the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media at the University of British Columbia and as Simon Fraser University Library’s current Non-Fiction Writer in Residence. She will take up her post as a tenure stream professor in the School of Journalism at Ryerson University in July, 2022.

Awards

 * 2021 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
 * 2021 Finalist, Evergreen Book Awards
 * Finalist for Memoir/Autobiography and Social Change at International Book Awards


 * 2020 Winner (editor) of Best Newsletter Digital Publishing Awards


 * 2019 Winner of Best Investigative Feature at Canadian Publishing Awards


 * 2017 Finalist for Best New Writer at National Magazine Awards


 * 2017 finalist (editor) Digital Publishing Awards for Best Personal Essay