Martha Park is the author of World Without End: Essays on Apocalypse and After, an illustrated collection of essays exploring the intersections of faith, motherhood, and the climate crisis across the South. World Without End was a Nonfiction Finalist for the Willie Morris Awards and a Tennessee Book Award Finalist in Nonfiction, received a Foreword Indies Honorable Mention for Essays, was named a Best Book of 2025 by Foreword Reviews, and was Garden & Gun Favorite Book of 2025.
A writer and illustrator from Memphis, Tennessee, Martha received an MFA from the Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins University. She has received fellowships and support from South Arts, the Tennessee Arts Commission, the Religion & Environment Story Project, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and Bucknell University’s Stadler Center for Poetry, where she was a Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence.
Her collaborative illustrated journalism won an EPPY Award for Best use of Data/Infographics and was a finalist for the Institute for Nonprofit News’ Insight Award for Visual Journalism. Martha’s writing, graphic essays, and illustrations have appeared in Orion, Oxford American, The Guardian, Guernica, The Bitter Southerner, Granta, Ecotone, ProPublica, and elsewhere. She writes a newsletter, irregularly.
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