Her debut publication They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing up won the 2021 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for non-fiction.
[2] Martis went to the University of Western Ontario where she earned a double honours Bachelor of Arts (English Language and Literature and Women's Studies and Feminist Research) and a Certificate in writing.
[4] Martis identifies as a Black woman with mixed heritage; her father is Jamaican and her mother is of Pakistani origin.
[7] She was the 2021 Asper Visiting Professor and Journalist-in-Residence at the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media at the University of British Columbia.
Martis was the Simon Fraser University Library's 2022 Non-Fiction Writer in Residence, holding the post from January to April 2022.