Katherine Martens

I live in Winnipeg. My first book All in A Row: The Klassens of Homewood is a family memoir. I have also had articles published in the Mennonite Mirror. Recently I published the essays "Giving Birth" in Living the Changes (ed. Joan Turner, University of Manitoba Press, 1990); "Sexuality and Childbirth: One Woman's Search for Emancipation" in Motherwork (Summer 1995); "An Encounter with Maria Reimer" with Heidi Harms in Prairie Fire (Fall 1995); and "Threading My Way" in Spider Women, A Tapestry of Creativity and Healing (ed. Joan Turner and Carol Rose, J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing Inc., 1999).

In 1988, I interviewed Mennonite women about their birth experiences. In 1997, Heidi Harms and I co-authored In Her Own Voice: Mennonite Childbirth Stories (University of Manitoba Press). I have just completed translating a 400-page collection of letters, from German to English, which I hope to publish. The letters were written between 1926–1950 by Nic Martens, Tina Willms and other members of their families who were immigrants from the Ukraine in the 1920s.

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