RECENT & UPCOMING APPEARANCES
To enquire about book club visits (either in-person or remote), please email me at mmconway@gmail.com.
Thursday, May 7, 2026, 7pm. Book launch event: reading and desserts. Bookshop West Portal, 80 West Portal Avenue, San Francisco.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025. Reading with Stephanie Reents and Keith Ekiss. Booksmith Bookstore, 1727 Haight Street, San Francisco.
Thursday, March 27, 2025. Panelist and Moderator: “Finding Today in the Past: Writing Relevant Historical Fiction,” AWP Conference, Los Angeles Convention Center.
Thursday, January 23, 2025. Guest lecturer: “The Powerful Beginning.” Stanford Continuing Studies.
Television
IN THE NEWS
• The Physician’s Daughter is Fine Historical Drama, USA Today, October 9, 2022.
• One Author’s Journey, Television interview on “Lit with Lloyd,” Los Gatos, California.
• Why the Story of The Underground River is Relevant Today
Television interview on “Bay Sunday,” CBS KPIX.
• Author Martha Conway on her book “The Underground River”
Television interview on “Bay Area Focus,” CBS SF Bay Area.
• “10 New Books We Recommend This Week,” New York Times, Sunday, July 20, 2017.
• “Bay Area author Martha Conway goes home (again) for Underground River,” San Jose Mercury News, Thursday, July 17.
• “New Novels Depict Valiant Women of Old America,” New York Times Book Review, Sunday, July 14, 2017.
• “The Underground Railroad Inspires a Wave of Books, Plays, TV, and More,” Los Angeles Times, Sunday, March 19, 2017.