Martha Strudwick Young (Jan. 11, 1862–May 9, 1941)[1] was an American regionalist writer known for her recounting of Southern folk tales, fables, and songs of black life in the plantation era.

Her family moved to nearby Greensboro after the Civil War, and it was there that she learned the Southern folk tales and stories of African-American culture that would form the basis of her later writings.

She was one of a group of regional writers who helped to popularize the use of dialect as an adjunct to realism, including George Washington Cable, Kate Chopin, Mary Noailles Murfree, and Joel Chandler Harris.

[8] By the time of her 1912 book Behind the Dark Pines—which was a collection of some 50 stories about animals, including Br'er Rabbit—she was being compared to Joel Chandler Harris, who considered some of her dialect verse "incomparably the best ever written.

The University of West Alabama's Julia S. Tutwiler Library holds a small selection of her writings, including a notebook.