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Sandra Olivetti Martin

Sandra Olivetti Martin is an American journalist and editor-publisher of Bay Weekly, in Annapolis, MD, on the Western Shore of Chesapeake Bay. She also writes a highly literate weekly column about the culture, the character and the carryings-on in her storied slice of Chesapeake Country.

A writing teacher by trade, Martin entered weekly journalism in Illinois. In Maryland, she and her family founded Bay Weekly, formerly New Bay Times, in 1993. Over a quarter century. Bay Weekly has established itself as the largest weekly newspaper in the region, distributing in a 65-mile  coastal stretch from Severna Park to Solomons Island.

Beyond writing and editing a paper devoted to smart, sustainable living, Martin is known for having trained writers young and old, many now working as writers throughout the country, with exactness rooted in her literary background.

Career

Editor, Publisher, Co-Founder: www.bayweekly.com Bay Weekly, Annapolis, MD.

1993–present; Managing Editor Hill Rag, Washington DC – 1985-1987; Staff Writer-Illinois Times, Springfield, Ill – 1978-1984.

Writer (freelance): Washington Post; Baltimore Sun; St. Louis Post-Dispatch;  St. Louis Magazine; Planning Magazine; Illinois Issues; Outdoors Maryland.

Books: (In process) Memoirs based in family history: Stories I Want My Grandchildren to Know; and Miss Cora Smith’s Last History Lesson.

Poetry: Co-founder, Brainchild Women’s Poetry Collective, in Springfield, Ill., (published with early support from the Illinois Arts Council.

Book Editor: (12+)

Universities

Faculty: University of Maryland (adjunct);  University of Illinois Springfield; St. Louis University; Purdue University; community colleges in Maryland, Illinois, Maryland and Missouri.

Education: B.A. (Literature) St. Louis University, 1964; M.A. (Literature) St. Louis University, 1967. Thesis:  Nature in American Puritan Poetry: The Devil Hides in the Wilderness Wild.

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Awards: Under Martin’s guidance, Bay Weekly more than two dozen writers have won recognition by the Maryland, Delaware, D.C. press association for news, feature, entertainment, sports and education stories, columns, graphics, illustration and special issues. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]