Kathleen Martin is an American

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publisher, book editor and actor. She is the co-founder of Wit's End Publishing and a senior editor of Point Blank Press, a crime fiction publisher. Her early career, after receiving an academic scholarship to

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

, centered on acting and theatre. She studied under

Sanford Meisner Sanford Meisner (August 31, 1905 – February 2, 1997) was an American actor and acting teacher who developed an approach to acting instruction that is now known as the Meisner technique. While Meisner was exposed to method acting at the Group ...

at New York's

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, performed with the Boston Shakespeare Company and

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. Her acting included also work with David Mamet. She worked behind the scenes in theatre by managing the young people's program at the Los Angeles Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and as the managing director of the Chicago Trinity Square Ensemble Theatre. After founding Wit's End Publishing, she published and edited the

Charles Willeford Charles Ray Willeford III (January 2, 1919 – March 27, 1988) was an American writer. An author of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism, Willeford is best known for his series of novels featuring hardboiled detective fiction, ...

collection, ''The Second Half of the Double Feature'', and the

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and

International Horror Guild Award The International Horror Guild Award (also known as the IHG Award) was an accolade recognizing excellence in the field of Horror fiction, horror/dark fantasy, presented by the International Horror Guild (IHG) from 1995 to 2008. The IHG Awards wer ...

nominated '' Tainaron: Mail From Another City'' by Leena Krohn. She voiced Janice Shriek in the short film adaptation of

Jeff VanderMeer Jeff VanderMeer (born July 7, 1968) is an American author, editor, and literary critic. Initially associated with the New Weird literary genre, VanderMeer crossed over into mainstream success with his bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy. The tr ...

's '' Shriek: An Afterword'' in 2007.

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Under the Bushel WeblogPersonal audio recordingsPoint Blank Press BioLEO Weekly Article by Paul KopaszCourier-Journal Article by Bill Wolfe
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