M. Celeste Martin

For years, Celeste Martin listened to stories her parents shared about their childhoods during World War ll and the Japanese Occupation in the Philippines. Particularly on rainy nights, the stories came out, giving Celeste plenty to harvest for her Children of the Pearl series of wartime adventures. 

After years of marketing and fundraising for non-profits including a large, international child sponsorship organization, a leading university, museums, and a city public library, Celeste now looks forward to a new direction as an author. She holds an undergraduate degree in Marketing from Rutgers University and a Master’s in Nonprofit Management from Rosemont College.

Celeste’s younger years were spent in the Metro Manila area of the Philippines. In the U.S., she has lived in San Antonio, Texas; Cherry Hill, New Jersey; Richmond, Virginia; Boston, and Los Angeles. With her husband, Southern New Jersey is now her home. 

When she’s not in a coffee shop writing, Celeste can be found tooling down some country road (sky’s the limit for her when it comes to long drives and “collecting routes”), visiting her daughter in Virginia, traveling, being on retreat somewhere (especially writing retreats), and baking pies (her goal: 1,000 pies).