Paula Martinac writes historical fiction set in the 19th and 20th centuries. She is the author of the novel Dear Miss Cushman and six others, including Testimony; Clio Rising, Gold Medalist, Northeast Region, 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards; The Ada Decades, a finalist for the 2018 Ferro-Grumley Award; and Out of Time, a Lambda Literary Award winner. Her work-in-progress and first mystery, A Death on the Mezzanine, received the 2023 William F. Deeck-Malice Domestic Grant for Unpublished Mystery Writers. In addition to teaching fiction writing at UNC Charlotte and Charlotte Center for the Literary Arts, she reviews books and does developmental editing.

Website: http://paulamartinac.com/

Publications

• The Ada Decades , Bywater Books (March 2017)
• Out of Time , Seal Press (1st ed., 1990); Bywater Books (e-book, 2012)
• Clio Rising , Bywater Books (May 2019)
• Testimony , Bywater Books (January 2021)
• Dear Miss Cushman , Bywater Books (December 2021)

Awards

• Lambda Literary Award(1991)
• William F. Deeck-Malice Domestic Grant(2023)
• ASC Creative Renewal Fellowship(2019)
• North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship(2019)
• Gold Medal Winner, Northeast Region, Independent Book Publishers Awards(2020)
• Historical Novel Society Diversity Scholarship(2023)

Employment

• Adjunct Instructor/English Dept. at University of North Carolina at Charlotte (January 2015 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in History from Chatham University
• Master of Arts in History from College of William and Mary

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Playwriting, Screenwriting