Martinez, Emma (b. 1986) is a Mexican American writer and field ecologist raised in El Paso, Texas. She studied environmental science at the University of New Mexico and earned an M.S. in forest ecosystems from Oregon State University, where she researched post-fire regeneration of Douglas-fir and tanoak. Her essays and reported features have appeared in regional newspapers and small magazines focused on conservation and outdoor culture. She has worked as a seasonal tech for the National Park Service in Olympic National Park and later coordinated community science projects on invasive plants for a nonprofit in Port Angeles, Washington. Martinez teaches nature writing workshops, serves as a volunteer sawyer on trail crews, and speaks on the intersection of attention, culture, and land stewardship. She lives on the Olympic Peninsula with a trail dog named Larch and spends too much time labeling field notebooks.
