Martina Evans (born 1961) is an Irish poet and novelist who lives in London.
Evans (née Cotter) was born in Burnfort, County Cork in 1961, the youngest of ten children.
She worked in Whittington Hospital for 15 years and did a degree in English and Philosophy with the Open University.
[1] She wrote intermittently during that period, but it was after her father's death in 1988 which released a burst of poetry that she turned to literature full-time.
[3] She is a Royal Literary Fund Advisory Fellow and reviews for the Irish Times.