DiMartino is a Mystic, Connecticut-based poet and public historian with work published in many literary journals and anthologies, including Modern Haiku and Alimentum. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Licking the Spoon (Finishing Line Press) and Strange Girls (Little Red Tree Publishing). Her poems have appeared in several art exhibits, most recently Poetry of the Wild ~ Mystic, which was on display at Mystic Seaport and featured a poem from her next manuscript, Wood to Skin, which is about the 19th-century whaling industry, highlighting the career of the Charles W. Morgan.