Gayle Martelles is a nationally recognized, award-winning educator who has been teaching--and writing with--middle-schoolers for over 30 years, and says, “I love looking at the world through their eyes.” A resident of Hawaii since 1969, Gayle is a Punahou grad who attended Stanford and earned her BA from Portland State and her Masters degree from the Northwest Writing Institute of the Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education. Gayle has lived on the slopes of Haleakala for thirty-nine years, and besides teaching and writing, she enjoys hiking Hawaii’s rain forests with her husband.