Lisa Martin's Homepage

Hello:
I'm Lisa B. Martin, an English instructor at Piedmont Technical College.  I live in Ninety Six, South Carolina with my husband, Rick (yes, I'm married to Ricky Martin), and three handsome sons: Garrett (age 2 1/2), Bennett (age 8)  and Noah (age 10). 

Hobbies:  
My children have my heart; I like to spend as much time with them as possible.  Additionally, I love to write--especially short stories and poetry.  My most recent writing project (Proven Guilty by L. Caroline Martin) has been published. It is rewarding to see one of my stories in print. 

Education:  
AA     USC-Union (Biology), 1987
BA     Newberry College (English), 1989
MA    Western Carolina University, 1997
          (English Literature)     

Contact Information:
Office:  Greenwood (141K)
Email:  martin.l@ptc.edu
Voice Mail:  864-941-8393

Writings and Conferences:

• June 2006, Proven Guilty by L. Caroline Martin. (Synopsis:  Renna Jameson is leading the life she has always dreamed of, embarking on a rewarding career, married to the man of her dreams, and trying to conceive the child that will undoubtedly make her life complete. Her dreams are shattered when Eve Boyer enters into her life and systematically tears her world apart. The diabolical Eve will stop at nothing to get what she wants, and what she wants is Renna's husband. Suspicion, seduction, and cloning are intertwined in this suspenseful story of a woman's struggle to hold on to her faith in her husband and in God. She desperately wants to believe her husband's profession of love, but how can she believe Eve's baby is not his when he has been Proven Guilty.

• November 2006, Presentation-- A “Web” of Support:  Teaching, Learning, Connecting, and Sharing in Developmental English." SCADE Conference, Trident Technical College, Charleston, SC. Co-presenter.  

• December 2006,  authored "About the Book" and "About the Author" for Robert E. Bryant's novel, Choices.

• April 2007, completed The Model by Robert E. Bryant. (Put the storyteller's plot  in novel form.); invited to read excepts of Proven Guilty at the Newberry College Authors' Event.

• May 2007, entered essay in national essay contest -- The Townsend Press Writing Contest for Developmental Reading and Writing College Teachers. Essay Titled:  "Against All Odds:  Discovering One's Voice in Developmental English." 

• June 2007, entered essay in Bechtel Prize competition.  Essay Titled: "The Stuff of Fiction:  Exploring Things Imagined to Escape reality, Teach Understanding, and Validate Worth."

• October 2007, entered original poem ("The Healer") is South Carolina Arts' Commission poetry fellowship competition.

• November 2007, original poem "Breathe" published in Greenwood Today.com (gwdtoday.com); "Baby Grace:  A Prayer" (This poem is dedicated to the countless children whose laughter is silenced by the very hands that should provide them with comfort and love.)

• March 2008, Original Short Story, "The Still Small Voice" completed.

Current Projects:

• I am writing a second novel--Assumptions by L. Caroline Martin (about a woman serial killer). This story, like Proven Guilty, is set in the rural South.

Teaching Awards:

• 2008:  Chosen as Piedmont Technical College's Professor of the Year; will represent PTC for the SC Governor's Professor of the Year Award.

• 2007:  Chosen as the Professor of the Year for the GETS Division, Piedmont Technical College.

• 2007:  Won an award for essay entitled "Against All Odds:  Discovering One's Voice in Developmental English" (Townsend Press Contest).

Links:

English and Humanities Department Homepage

Piedmont Technical College Homepage

College Scholarships