Mary Jo Martin, a member of the Houston Writer’s Guild, is an award-winning writer who lives in the suburbs of Houston, Texas. Her short story, set in South Carolina, about domestic abuse and a poisoning, Flowers for Lewis, was published in a Houston Writer’s Guild Press anthology, Waves of Suspense (2015). Another short story about scars, The Life of Riley, appeared in the online literary magazine, Short Fiction Break.

Sibling Revelries won first place in the memoir category in a Houston Writer’s Guild contest, and an honorable mention in a Houston Writer’s House contest.

Aside from all this cool author stuff, Mary Jo has a B.Sc. in Chemistry and is a graduate of The Wharton School. This was her ticket out of South Philly. She did marketing and market research for 40 years. Then she hung up her marketing shingle and retired to a leisurely life of writing something more interesting and fun than business reports.