Marianne Manzler is a writer, educator, and editor. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays 2022, Fourth Genre, The Seventh Wave, 5280, and elsewhere, and she has received support from Minnesota State Arts Board, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Sundress Publications, Anderson Center, and Vermont Studio Center. Raised in Cincinnati, she is a graduate of The Ohio State University and University of Washington, where she received her MFA in Creative Writing. Within the past decade, she has served as a Fulbright scholar, AmeriCorps member, and Urban Leaders Policy Fellow. She lives in Minneapolis, MN, where she manages and teaches in the education program at the Loft Literary Center. She is a poetry and prose reader at Quarterly West, The Rumpus column We Are More, and The Offing.

Mumu Stories is a multimedia project with both audio and newsletter notes that will explore topics such as creativity, memory, time, illness, multigenerational relationships and knowledge sharing, and cultural history.

Marianne Manzler is a fiscal year 2025 recipient of a Creative Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.