Martha Cinader is an author and performance artist. She is the author of When the Body Calls, an anthology of poetry and stories, and Dreamscape, Real Dreams Really Make a Difference, a collection of biographical stories about interesting people from both recent history and antiquity. She is on numerous recordings including her self-produced, Living It! She hosts and produces Listen & Be Heard, a non-commercial podcast and syndicated radio show and is the Director of Listen & Be Heard Radio at WLBH.org.
Martha has performed original stories and poetry in homeless shelters, nightclubs and international festivals. Martha took Listen & Be Heard through several iterations as a unique open mic event in New York and then Vallejo, CA, where it also became a weekly newspaper and poetry café for six years. She headed south in 2009. A mother of four, she is now an empty nester managing seven acres of fields, ponds and woods, looking after goats, Muscovy ducks, chickens, a cat and a Great Pyrenees dog, and occasionally blogging about it.
Martha's work has been published in Across Latitude & Language by Delhi Poetry Slam, a global anthology of poets celebrating diverse voices from around the world.