Marianne Manzler

Marianne Manzler is a Filipina-American writer, educator, and editor based in Minneapolis, MN. Her work is published or appears in Best American Essays 2022, Fourth Genre, Seventh Wave, 5280, and more. She has received support and fellowships from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Sewanee Writers' Conference, Anderson Center, Sundress Publications, Vermont Studio Center, Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing, the Fulbright Program, and Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. In 2019, she received her MFA in Creative Writing from University of Washington, where she was awarded the Eugene Van Buren Prize for Fiction and held the distinguished Grace Milliman Pollock fellowship. Currently, she’s working on a memoir-in-essays about illness, identity, intuition, and persistent ties of home. Tune into her grant-funded podcast/newsletter mumustories.com or learn more about her work at mariannemanzler.com!