Emily Winfield Martin

{{short description|American artist and author-illustrator of children's books}}

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Emily Winfield Martin is an American artist and author-illustrator of children's books. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

After graduating from art school in 2005, Martin began selling her visual art through the online store Etsy, thereafter achieving acclaim in The New York Times ,{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/magazine/16Crafts-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0|title=Handmade 2.0|author=Rob Walker|newspaper=The New York Times|accessdate=2015-09-26}} on CNN,{{cite web|author=Jessica Bruder |url=https://money.cnn.com/2009/07/13/smallbusiness/etsy_wars.fsb/ |title=The Etsy wars: Artisans' backlash against craft site - Jul. 14, 2009 |publisher=Money.cnn.com |date= |accessdate=2015-09-26}} and on The Martha Stewart Show{{cite web|url=http://www.marthastewart.com/264299/black-apple-doll |title=Black Apple Doll |publisher=Martha Stewart |date= |accessdate=2015-09-26}} as one of Etsy's original and most enduring success stories. Eventually Martin parlayed these successes into a career in professional book publication.{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK2_X9ZXCMY |title=Emily Winfield Martin, The Black Apple - XOXO Festival (2012) |publisher=YouTube |date=2012-11-27 |accessdate=2015-09-26}}

Martin has written and illustrated seven children's books: an enigmatic book of story fragments & illustrations called The Imaginaries, middle grade fairy tale retelling Snow & Rose, picture books The Wonderful Things You Will Be, Dream Animals: A Bedtime Journey, Day Dreamers: A Journey of Imagination, and The Littlest Family's Big Day. A series of vignettes, Oddfellow's Orphanage, which she also wrote and illustrated, was described by Publishers Weekly as a "poignant and gently humorous debut […] set in an unusual orphanage."{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-375-86995-2 |title=Children's Book Review: Oddfellow's Orphanage by Emily Winfield Martin|publisher=Publishersweekly.com |date= |accessdate=2015-09-26}} She also produced a popular crafts book, The Black Apple's Paper Doll Primer: Activities and Amusements for the Curious Paper Artist.