Marianne Manzler is a writer, educator, and editor. She earned a BA in English Literature from The Ohio State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington, where she was awarded the Grace Milliman Pollock Fellowship and Eugene Van Buren Thesis Award, co-founded the Black Jaw Literary Series, and co-edited The Seattle Review. There, she taught writing to youth and undergraduate students. She has also worked in the magazine and book publishing industry in both editorial and marketing departments. She is the Director of Education at The Porch and has taught creative writing and contemporary literature at The Loft Literary Center, Carleton College, Walker Art Center, Lighthouse Writers, and more.

Her work has been recognized by Best American Essays 2022 and published in Fourth Genre, The Seventh Wave, 5280, and elsewhere. She has received support from Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, Storyknife Writers Retreat, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Sundress Publications, Anderson Center at Tower View, and Vermont Studio Center. 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 poetry reader at The Offing and host of the podcast series Mumu Stories. Her memoir explores beginnings and endings, identity and illness, and the persistent call of home and the unknown.