Martha Lee, artist and writer is a Washington state native born in Chehalis, Washington. She now lives on a small ranch in Ocean Park, WA on the Long Beach peninsula with her Appaloosa horse, Gypsy. She has worked as a reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and has completed two novels. Her poetry chapbook, To the Beach and Other Poems has been published in two editions, the first having her original artwork for its covers. An artist as well, she has painted, professionally, in oil on canvas for over thirty years. Her paintings are represented in private and public collections throughout