Chelsea Martin is an American author and illustrator born in California in 1986. She received a BFA from California College of the Arts in 2008.She is the author of Everything Was Fine Until Whatever (Future Tense Books, 2009), The Really Funny Thing About Apathy (Sunnyoutside, 2010), Kramer Sutra (Universal Error, 2012), and Even Though I Don't Miss You (Short Flight/Long Drive Books, 2013), which was named one of the Best Indie Books of 2013 by Dazed Magazine and was a small press bestseller. Her work has also appeared in numerous journals including Poetry Foundation and Hobart (magazine), and the Alt lit Anthology ‘’40 Likely To Die Before 40.’’ Her work has been described as "emotionally honest", "provocative and disturbing", and, "less disaffected than the Alt lit peers she’s associated with." Her work has often been compared to the work of Harmony Korine.Nylon Magazine said her work "feels like a meditation on consciousness, feeling, and of course, the absence of both," and Publisher's Weekly called The Really Funny Thing About Apathy "a fixation on fleeting incidents in the life of the young and fearful."