Heather Martin Featured in Yellow Pine Reading Series
Linda Tate

Heather Martin, faculty member in the University Writing Program, read from her novel-in-progress, Latimers Stone, on Wednesday, March 5. Martin was one of five featured readers in the Yellow Pine Reading Series in North Boulder.

In addition to teaching in the University Writing Program, Martin is also currently completing a PhD in DUs Creative Writing program. As part of her doctoral program, Martin is writing Latimers Stone, a novel chronicling five women and their contact with a fabled object (Latimer's Stone) over the last 150 years. As each character comes into contact with the stone, she becomes obsessed with it in her own way.

Latimers Stone, says Martin in a recent interview, is broken up into sections about women in very different historical periods, in different parts of their lives, and under different circumstances. Each of these sections is its own compact, independent piece. In some ways, its a set of short stories connected only by the stone object. The voice of the narrator, a researcher, introduces the stone and reveals the primary documents that she has found for each of the characters. At the Yellow Pine reading, Martin shared a highly entertaining and humorous excerpt from a section about Crystalline, one of the women connected to the stone.

Martin holds a BA in English and Humanities from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and her MA in Creative Writing at the City University of New York at Queens. Most recently, Martin served as the Interim Director of DUs First-Year English Program. Her creative and scholarly work has appeared in regional and national publications, including Matter, Cold Mountain Review, DoubleRoom, and Electric Velocipede.

Organized by Boulder writer Ellen Orleans, the Yellow Pine Reading Series is a quarterly mix of town, gown, regional, visiting, experienced, and emerging writers. Poets, memoir writers, essayists, fiction writers, and those who blur definitions come together at this growing series.

Writers interested in presenting at Yellow Pine should email a writing sample (five pages of prose or three of poetry) to eorleans@earthlink.net or to Ellen Orleans, P.O. Box 1348, Boulder, CO 80306.

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