Martha Frankel (born July 18, 1953) is an American writer. She was born in the
Bronx, New York.
She began her writing career at the original ''
Details'' magazine, writing a column about plastic surgery titled ''Knifestyles of the Rich and Famous.'' She went on to write book reviews, essays and celebrity profiles for other magazines, such as ''
Movieline'', ''
Cosmopolitan'' and ''
The New Yorker''.
Currently, she serves as executive director of th
Woodstock Writers Festival a yearly gathering of writers and readers in Woodstock, New York.
Martha is host o
Woodstock Writers Radio a Sunday morning radio talk show on
WDST in
Woodstock, New York.
Her memoir, ''Hats & Eyeglasses'', chronicling her family's lifelong love affair with
gambling, was published in 2008 (Tarcher/
Penguin Group). "Hats and eyeglasses" is an old gambling expression describing an unfortunate run at the table. In Frankel's childhood, gambling equated to friendship, food and laughter. "We bet on everything, from sports to how much our mothers would lose at Weight Watchers," Frankel recalls in the book.
Her second book, ''Brazilian Sexy: Secrets to Living a Gorgeous and Confident Life'' (co-written with Janea Padilha) was published in April 2010 (Perigee/Penguin Group). Her essay "Looped Yarn" appears in the anthology ''Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting'' (2013), published by
W. W. Norton & Company.
Frankel is a winner of a
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFFA) Award in creative nonfiction. She was the 1997 Philip Morris Fellow at the
MacDowell Colony, and the 2003 Artist-in-Residence at
SUNY Ulster
SUNY Ulster (Ulster County Community College) is a public community college with its main campus in Stone Ridge, New York, in Ulster County. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. The college also maintains facilities in ...
, where she taught a class in
memoir writing.
She has lived in the upstate New York town of
Boiceville for over 30 years, with her husband, artist Steve Heller.
References
External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20100114024228/http://woodstockwritersfestival.com/
* https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/garden/07frankel.html?_r=2&ref=garden&oref=slogin
* http://www.hvmag.com/Hudson-Valley-Magazine/September-2008/Wild-Card/
* http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2008/02/book_notes_mart.html
* http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2009/03/19/life/doc49c1563d45667420926320.txt
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1953 births
Living people
Writers from New York (state)
People from the Bronx