Marianne K. Martin

Marianne K. Martin (born 1945/1946

In the 1970s, Martin became the girls' basketball coach at Whitmore Lake High School, serving for thirteen years and leading them to the quarterfinals in 1984. She coached three winning Tri-County Conference softball teams for the school. She was The Ann Arbor News 1984 Special Mention Coach of the Year award. She was also an art teacher and a physical education teacher at Whitmore Lake, as well as a coach for other varsity basketball teams elsewhere in Michigan. She founded the Michigan Women's Major Fast-Pitch Association,

Martin filed an equal pay lawsuit in 1976, causing the Michigan Civil Rights Commission to rule in her favor in 1980. She was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Romance three times: for For Now, for Always in 2008, Tangled Roots in 2015, and The Liberators of Willow Run in 2017. Other novels she published are Dance in the Key of Love, Dawn of the Dance, The Indelible Heart, Kickin' Rocks, Legacy of Love, Love in the Balance, Never Ending, Under the Witness Tree, and Whisper to the Wind. She won the 2012 Golden Crown Literary Society Trailblazer Award and a 2014 Alice B Readers Award, and she was one of GO Magazines 2013 100 Women We Love. She and Lisa Marie Evans co-directed the documentary In Her Words: 20th Century Lesbian Fiction.

Martin is lesbian.