Marty was born on a farm near the small, western Tennessee town of Trimble. He graduated from the University of Tennessee with a degree in Electrical Engineering and worked 30 years at TVA in various engineering and management positions in Alabama and Tennessee. After retiring from TVA in Knoxville, he worked another 12 years for FEMA performing damage assessment for natural disasters throughout the United States. He is the inventor of the Convex Curve Cutter, a bandsaw attachment used by woodworkers throughout the US and Canada. He also invented a special contoured shovel that he named the Wee..Drr that was well accepted in East Tennessee.

Marty has not yet published, but will finish his first novel soon.