Marta Lane knows that you’re never too old to start over and follow your dreams. She has done so. Multiple times.
While she now lives with her husband, Daniel, in Colorado, Marta’s heart is in Hawaii. On their 10th wedding anniversary, the couple visited the island of Kauai and fell in love — with the island and with the Hawaiian spirit of Aloha.
Six months later, they quit their long-time careers in the television industry, packed their bags, and moved to Kauai, renting a little studio they found on Craigslist.
In Colorado, Marta had been an avid fan of the Food Network, watching the shows voraciously and trying out the recipes. She had also been a member of a Community Supported Agriculture initiative (CSA) and had earned a personal chef certification. On Kauai, she embraced those passions and the spirit of Aloha by discovering a CSA, and finding work writing two columns in the local weekly paper about restaurants and farmers. Those columns became so popular they were picked up by the daily paper. She went on to publish a restaurant guidebook and started a successful food tour company.
After almost eight years on Kauai, the couple had to return to Colorado to take care of Marta’s ailing parents, where once again, despite those challenges as well as the Covid lockdown, Marta found a way to start over and embrace a new creative dream: writing fiction.
Currently a literary editor finishing her debut novel, it is, not surprisingly, set in Hawaii and is about a chef who leaves Colorado to start over.
An active member of the Women’s Fiction Writers Association, in 2020 Marta won the Pikes Peak Writer’s Zebulon Contest. She was accepted into the 2021-2022 year-long Fishtrap Writers Workshop with Sharma Shields, and her work has been published in many places including The San Francisco Chronicle, The Denver Post, Hawaiian Airlines magazines and Honolulu magazine.
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