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Marianne M. Manzler is a writer, educator, and editor. Raised in Cincinnati, she is the graduate of The Ohio State University and University of Washington, where she received her MFA in Creative Writing–Prose, held the Grace Milliman Pollock Fellowship, and her thesis won UW’s Eugene Van Buren Award. There, she taught writing to youth and undergraduate students. She has also worked in the book publishing industry in both editorial and marketing departments. She manages the education program at The Loft Literary Center.
Her work can be found 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 at Tower View, and Vermont Studio Center. Most recently, she is a 2025 recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board grant and a 2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship Finalist in Literature-Prose. Within the past decade, she has served as a Fulbright scholar, AmeriCorps member, and Urban Leaders Policy Fellow. She is an Editor for The Rumpus column We Are More and a reader at Quarterly West and The Offing. She hosts the podcast series Mumu Stories about creativity, illness, and the hustle of being a writer. She is currently seeking representation for her memoir about illness, identity, intuition, and the persistent ties of home.