She works primarily in early modern English poetry and non-dramatic prose, with a focus on Reformation politics and poetics. A chapter from her first book project, "Mere Meter: Early Modern Metrical Psalms and the Sound of English Poetry," is forthcoming in a new history of English literature from Cambridge University Press. Her writing has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Oregonian and the Chicago Tribune. Martínez Valdivia received her doctorate in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania in addition to a Master of Arts in English and comparative literature from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Music from Florida State University.