About
Jena Martin is a writer and a pathologist. She finds and describes the beauty in the grotesque, a perspective that is helpful in both fields.
Jena currently lives in the Minneapolis area with her family. If she isn’t behind her computer or her microscope, she’s likely cooking, making collage art or strength training.
She is represented by Rachel Ekstrom Courage of Courage Literary.
Selected publications
Essays:
The Poetry Report from Pathology. Write or Die Literary Magazine, April 2023
The Secrets of Hair Loss. The Bellevue Literary Review, Issue 41
Honest Affirmations for Skeptical Realists. Salon, 2018
Facing Uncertainty in Pathology Training, Doximity 2019
Don't Underestimate the Pannus, Doximity 2018
Poems:
The Intima, Spring 2023
https://www.theintima.org/haematein-after-john-ashberys-some-trees-jena-martin