Martinez, Isabella is a Chilean American novelist and translator. Born in 1983 in El Paso, Texas, to parents who left Valparaiso in the late 1970s, she studied Latin American history at the University of Texas at Austin and earned an MFA in fiction from the University of Iowa. Her essays and short stories have appeared in Agni, Zyzzyva, and Kenyon Review. A former Fulbright researcher in Santiago, she has worked as an oral history interviewer in Buenos Aires and as a high school teacher on the U.S.-Mexico border. She lives in Oakland, California, where she co-directs a community press and teaches archival storytelling workshops.
