Marianne Manzler is a writer, educator, and editor. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays 2022, Fourth Genre, The Seventh Wave, 5280, and elsewhere, and she has received support from Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Sundress Publications, Anderson Center, and Vermont Studio Center. Raised in Cincinnati, she is a graduate of The Ohio State University and University of Washington, where she received her MFA in Creative Writing. Within the past decade, she has served as a Fulbright scholar, AmeriCorps member, and Urban Leaders Policy Fellow. She lives in Minneapolis, MN, where she manages and teaches in the education program at the Loft Literary Center. She is a prose reader at Quarterly West and The Rumpus column We Are More. She is at work on a memoir about her medical odyssey across Southeast Asia and America, about finding her voice in unexpected places, and the persistent pull of familial ties.