Sasha Martin is a National Geographic author, poet, and artist creating a body of work centered on resilience and belonging.
Her memoir, Life from Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness, grew out of her project to cook a meal from every country in the world and has been published in multiple languages and featured by NPR, Food & Wine, The Boston Globe, People Magazine and O: The Oprah Magazine. Sasha’s work is known for its emotional honesty and sensory richness, and is driven by the question: how do we come home to ourselves after what we’ve been through?
Born in Massachusetts and shaped by experiences of food insecurity, foster care, and housing instability, Sasha’s early life informs her enduring interest in how people create beauty, ritual, and connection from what is available to them. Bridging many disciplines including fiction, essays, poetry, and visual art, Sasha draws on patterns of story, memory, and transformation that echo the qualities of living folklore.
She is the author of Abecedarium, a series of letters for artists and writers, and is currently at work on a novel. Her work has been supported by residencies and fellowships including the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, the Osage Forest of Peace, and the Mary K. Oxley Artist Residency. She has received recognition from the Nimrod Literary Awards and the Culinary Institute of America, where she was named an M.F.K. Fisher Scholar.
Sasha speaks about creativity, resilience, food, and the writing life for universities, libraries, and community organizations. Through her writing and art, she is interested in attention, wonder, and the ways we return to ourselves—and to one another.
She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
