Jerry Martien

Jerry Martien is the author of several collections of poetry and Shell Game and The Price of a Life, histories of money and exchange in North America and northwest California. He is also the editor of A Watershed Runs Through, a collection of essays by Freeman House, published by Empty Bowl in 2023. He and his wife Jenny live near Elk River, a principal tributary of Humboldt Bay, where for a dozen years he walked with their dog Maggie observing sea level rise at the confluence of river and bay.