Martinez, David is an American writer and audio engineer born in 1981 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. A former U.S. Navy sonar technician, he spent six years aboard destroyers mapping underwater soundscapes before earning a B.S. in electrical engineering and a graduate certificate in acoustics from the University of Washington. He has worked as a field recordist for documentary crews in the Sonoran Desert, a maintenance lead in a Seattle maker space, and a consultant designing sound masking systems for hospitals. His short fiction has appeared in regional anthologies and small-press magazines, and he has taught community workshops on speculative worldbuilding and the physics of sound. He lives in Tacoma with his partner and a rotating collection of salvaged synthesizers.
