Mae Donicia Martinez

Mae Donicia Martinez (she/her) is an assistant editor looking for voice-driven, upmarket fiction that says something new about the world we live in, queer contemporary romance with equal heart and spice, speculative/genre bending fiction with a love story at its core, as well as dynamic and diverse retellings of beloved classic stories or folklore. She prioritizes talented writers who identify in any of the following categories: Black, Indigenous, Palestinian, person of color, Latine(x), LGBTQIA+, disabled, or neurodivergent. Her list proudly includes Gia de Cadenet, Nadia El-Fassi, Swati Hegde, and Shannon Ives. In addition to building her own list, Mae assists Jenny Chen and Shauna Summers. Since joining the Ballantine Bantam Dell team in 2021, Mae has graduated with her master’s degree in Publishing, but she is especially proud of having a character named after her in Elissa Sussman’s Once More With Feeling.