Grace Ethel Martyr (1888 – 22 December 1934) was an Australian poet, short story writer and journalist.

[6] She worked for The Bendigo Advertiser as women's editor and also ran the children's page, remaining on the job until the week before her death.

[7] She wrote many poems which were published in The Australasian,[8] The Bulletin, Australian Woman's Mirror, The Herald and Weekly Times.

[9] Journalist and poet, Zora Cross, writing as Bernice May, considered that Martyr and Tasmanian Hilda Bridges created "the most lovable and delightful small girls in our Australian literature today".

[26] In August 1935, during a service at St Paul's Church, a cross was dedicated by the Anglican bishop of Bendigo to her memory.