Dick Martin is an award winning writer and teacher. He has worked for over 25 years as a professional writer for various magazines and newspapers. Martin has distinguished himself by earning major awards from the Rhode Island Press Association, and the New England Press Association as well as having been recognized for his writing by a variety of other organizations, including the National Education Association. His columns and stories have appeared in Your Smithfield Magazine, The Woonsocket Call, The Providence Journal, Providence Magazine, and The Observer, among other venues. He currently writes for The Smithfield Times Magazine.Martin is also an award winning high school English teacher. He has taught for a combined 40 years at both Burrillville High in Rhode Island and Killingly High in Connecticut. He has been honored twice as Teacher of the Year and his students have garnered a number of writing awards in both schools.

He has appeared in the Who's Who Among America's Teachers numerous times and is a 1971 graduate of the University of Rhode Island.Martin grew up on a small farm in Glocester, Rhode Island and bases many of his stories on those experiences growing up in rural New England. Farm life is still close to his heart. He and his wife Dale have sheep, chickens, dogs, cats, guinea hens, and a horse and grow and can their own vegetables, make their own preserves and strongly believe in an organic approach to eating and life in general. They live on part of his own family's farm land where Dick grew up.