About Martha Kennedy

New work! As a Baby Duck Listens to Thunder -- stories of life as a Foreign Expert in English in Guangzhou, China 1982-1983.

Martha Kennedy has published four works of historical fiction. Her first novel, Martin of Gfenn, which tells the story of a young fresco painter living in 13th century Zürich, was awarded the Editor's Choice by the Historical Novel Society Indie Review and the BRAG Medallion from IndieBRAG in 2015. In 2017, Martin of Gfenn was short-listed for the Chaucer Award from Chanticleer Reviews.

Across the World on the Wings of the Wind is a trilogy of stand-alone novels, a family saga, spanning 500 years of the von Lunkhofen/Schneebeli family from Affoltern am Albis, Switzerland. The trilogy begins with Savior, relating Rudolf von Lunkhofen's journey on Crusade to the Holy Land in 1244, and ends with The Price that brings the Schneebeli family to America in 1743. In between is The Brothers Path in which the Schneebeli family finds itself caught up in the upheaval of the Protestant Reformation.

Savior, The Brothers Path and The Price, are all BRAG Medallion Honorees. They have recently been compiled into one book, Across the World on the Wings of the Wind, available both for Kindle and in paperback, at a bargain price.

Late in 2017, Kennedy compiled several stories of her adventures hiking with her dogs (and some people!) in California into a memoir titled "My Everest: Thirty Years of San Diego Hiking (With Dogs!)". Described by one reader as a "love letter" and so it is. it has recently been awarded an Indie BRAG Medallion.

For many years she lived in the San Diego area, most recently in Descanso, a small town in the Cuyamaca Mountains. In 2014 she returned to Colorado to live in Monte Vista in the San Luis Valley, a place she calls "Heaven."