Christy Ann Martine

Christy Ann Martine Zutautas (born November 8, 1972) is a Canadian writer and poet living in Bradford, Ontario. Her poems have been published in Tickled By Thunder Fiction Magazine, WTF Magazine and The Cynic Online Magazine . Christy Ann Martine Zutautas was chosen by editor Maggie Kirton, founder and editor of Wynterblue Thunder Publishing Canada Inc. to be the feature poet the in the November - December Christmas issue of Blue Sky Region in 2006. . Her poem "The Blaze" will appear in the O'Words Anthology published by Sasha Kasoff and Kylina Matteoli. Her short stories "The Pet Cemetery" and "The Spy Who Loved Me" have been published in Tom and Kerri Everitt's True Real Estate Stories.
In 2010 Zutautas received honourable mention in The Foundation of Public Poetry's O Canada contest. After the death of journalist Michelle Lang in Afghanistan on in December 2009 the Foundation issued a call for a possible gender-neutral replacement to the "O Canada" anthem line "True patriot love, in all they sons' command." Entries were received from across Canada, and narrowed down to a shortlist of three which included Christy Ann Martine Zutautas' line "Faithful and diverse, in unity we stand." The shortlist was submitted to three of Robert Stanley Weir's descendants. Robert Stanley Weir wrote the English version of the Canadian national anthem in 1908. Robert Stanley Weir's great granddaughter stated that she found Zutautas' line most appealing but favoured the line "True patriot love in all of us command" because it meant the least distruption in the way the anthem is sung. The Foundation submitted the winning line to Parliament but the federal goverment decided not to change the words of the Canadian National Anthem after receiving numerous negative comments. .
Christy Ann Martine Zutautas began publishing her poetry under the pen name Christy Ann Martine on social media sites in the spring of 2014 and is currently selling her typed poems on Etsy.

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