About Me: Martha Krausz

Writer, Editor, Coach

"If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things." - Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse

Welcome—I’m Martha.

I grew up in beautiful Marin County with my mother, twin sister, and a houseful of animals. My love for the language arts can be traced back to the 8th grade, and has been a guiding force in my personal, academic and professional life.

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I believe writing is more than a craft. It’s a way of locating ourselves—a second body we can enter that can help us feel, organize, and move through the complexity of our lives.

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When I write, I’m not just trying to braid a pretty sentence and wear it as a crown or say something "well." I’m trying to find out what’s true—to bring language into alignment with lived experience, and into harmony with the stories my body is telling. At its best, writing for me becomes a kind of fascia of its own: a connective tissue that can help sensitize me to, and hold together, the interconnected parts of who I am.

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This belief shapes everything I offer—especially The Writing Room, my weekly embodied-writing gathering for humans of all kinds. Together, we read contemporary prose and poems, respond through generative prompts, and practice showing up on the page without performance or self-abandonment. It’s a space for embodied attention, honesty, and shared witnessing—for becoming people who notice, feel, and tell.

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Alongside this work, I’ve spent the past five years teaching and coaching writers across disciplines. I hold a BA in literature and poetry translation from Hampshire College and an MA in English Literature from Mills College, where I studied writers like Virginia Woolf. I work with high school and college students, as well as adult writers, offering support in both analytical and creative writing.

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My approach is also informed by yoga, meditation, and Internal Family Systems. In practice, this means helping writers recognize the different “voices” or internal forces that shape their process—fear, perfectionism, curiosity, intuition—and learning how to write from a place of grounded, compassionate awareness. It also means weaving meditations and subtle embodiment practices into the writing process so that we can write within, from, and toward our bodies. As a survivor of disordered eating & exercise, and as a certified Body Positive facilitator, I believe that a body and a body of writing are co-creative, always talking to each other—and that writing and self-reclamation/healing are collaborative. 

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My work is about helping you find your own words, and through that—yourself. On that journey, I'm interested in every pitstop, detour and labyrinth you travel. As Leonard Woolf wrote in his autobiography, "The journey, not the arrival, matters."

If this resonates, I'd love to write with you.

To end, a few words from my favorite authors. . . 

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~ “For it would seem . . .that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.” — Virginia Woolf, Orlando.

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~ “It was by listening to the truths of other women that I learned how to better listen to my own. It is by writing this that I learned about the words we must say to our bodies, how truly we must mean them.”- Melissa Febos, Girlhood

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“The body knows. When your heart sinks. When you feel sick to your gut. When something blossoms in your chest. When your brain gloriously pops. That’s your body telling you the One True Thing. Listen to it.”

― Cheryl Strayed, Brave Enough

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You can email me at martha.krausz68@gmail.com or direct message me @martha_writes92 on Instagram.

I look forward to connecting.

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