Maria Martelli writes and researches mixing antispeciesist and queer-feminist theories.

She has published a volume of poetry "the luckiest being” (frACTalia, 2023) that was shortlisted for a few prizes and a children's book titled"The Story of the Sow and of Becoming Human” (Hecate & ELF, 2022).

Her stories and poems can be found on online platforms (Literature and Feminism, Possible Worlds), in anthologies (Our Possible Worlds, 2020; Shelters, 2021; Skylights, 2022) and zines (Madzine II, THE FLOCK!#2). She has participated in several projects as editor/coordinator, a process she appreciates especially when it is collective. She has held public readings and writing workshops.

They graduated from the Master of Advanced Sociological Research at the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Babeș-Bolyai University with a critical thesis on anthropocentrism in education for sustainable development. After that, she started an independent activist-research on the liberatory potential of animal sanctuaries, urban coexistence and multispecies imaginaries.

In the collective project just wondering… she writes and co-produces video essays exploring themes of multispecies, climate and social justice. She is part of Cenacle X, a self-organized queer literary group, and of Queer Vegan Community, an activist group dedicated to forming connections between movements for non-human animals and other movements for social justice.

She was an editor at the Student Journal of Vegan Sociology and a co-host of the social science podcast contrasens.

They live in a post-industrial town with three talkative cats, two determined dogs, the beings of the garden and their human partner.