Kathleen Martens

Kathleen L. Martens is an active member of the RBWG. With a B.A. in English Literature and a M.A. in Educational Psychology from the University of Connecticut, she pursued a career in intercultural communications while living and working in Thailand and Indonesia. Her travels throughout Asia resulted in her writing the award-winning memoir of Margaret Zhao, a survivor of the Cultural Revolution under Chairman Mao, Really Enough, a True Story of Tyranny, Courage and Comedy.
Kathleen is currently working on her own memoir, a book of short stories, and a novel set in a modern Stone Age society in the remote mountains of Irian Jaya, Indonesia, based on her own consulting experience in her twenties. Her recent short story, “Molting,” won a Judge’s Choice Award and was published by Cat and Mouse Press in Beach Days, 2015.
Kathleen is currently working on her own memoir, a book of short stories, and a novel set in a modern Stone Age society in the remote mountains of Irian Jaya, Indonesia, based on her own consulting experience in her twenties. Her recent short story, “Molting,” won a Judge’s Choice Award and was published by Cat and Mouse Press in Beach Days, 2015.