Manjula Martin
Manjula Martin is the author of The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History. She is the coauthor of Fruit Trees for Every Garden, which won the American Horticultural Society Book Award. Martin edited the anthology Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living, and she was the managing editor of the National Magazine Award–winning literary journal Zoetrope: All-Story. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. She lives in California.

‘The Lost Bus’ Review
The Apple TV+ film barely crosses the front lines of the 2018 Camp Fire.

Excerpt: ‘The Last Fire Season’
Read the opening pages from Manjula Martin’s memoir and natural history, the June California Book Club selection.

Why I Write: 17 Reasons
Manjula Martin, the California Book Club June author, shares why she writes.