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Marianne Manzler is a writer, educator, & 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. In 2022, she and her husband moved to Minneapolis, where she manages and teaches creative writing classes 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, 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 and curates the Substack newsletter and podcast series Mumu Stories that focuses on works in progress, personal narrative, arts and education, and health. She is currently seeking representation for her memoir about family, belief, identity, illness, and the persistent ties of home.