Hello, I’m Marilyn.
My teaching and writing have ranged widely. Along with American literature, I have taught Medical Humanities, Literature and the Natural World, Portraiture and Character in Literature and Art, Approaches to Autobiography, and a variety of other writing courses.
Having left full-time teaching to spend more waking hours writing, I also speak for university, church, and community groups, lead retreat, offer short courses and writing workshops and personal editing services. Please contact me if you’re interested in any of these.
In addition to the books listed on this site, my writing has appeared in a wide variety of academic and trade publications. You can find links to some of my essays and articles on the Podcasts and Media page.
My deepest interests lie in connections between spirituality, language, and healing the earth and each other. I’m a vegetarian, have an expanding family of lovely adult children and stepchildren, children-in-law, and grandchildren, I love to hear my husband read aloud, listen to audio books or podcasts, and walk or ride the tandem by the river . I hope to keep finding ways to help heal the planet, and don’t think we can do that without imagination, compassion, humility, and a massive paradigm shift.