FAY MARTIN
AUTHOR

Fay Martin is an author, community organizer, researcher and retired social worker.

After a life-time of writing other people's stories as a social worker, Fay wrote Dementia Widow: a memoir about love, death and survival (Iguana, 2026) about her own experience as a spousal caregiver.  She  has written a bi-weekly column for the Haliburton Echo / Minden Times  since 2022. In an earlier life, she wrote academic and research papers,  grant applications, and case histories of other people.

She  came to Haliburton County in 1997 to found a children's service agency  and was involved in initiating several related public services. She was a  one-plus in her husband's career as a playwright, and created a  full-time retirement job in non-market housing. Places for People still  engages a significant amount of her time and attention.

She  shares her home with two slightly bent cats, and hangs out with people  who support her community life as an occasionally troublesome, often  useful, citizen.