Career

Marianne Monson holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

She is the author of eleven books for children and adults, with an emphasis on frontier-era women's history. She is also a regular contributor to Rain Magazine, Hipfish, and Coast Weekend. Her nonfiction title "Frontier Grit," was nominated for the American Library Association's Amelia Bloomer award. The companion volume, Women of the Blue and Gray: Civil War Mothers, Medics, Soldiers, and Spies, was released in 2018 and was awarded a silver medal by Foreword Reviews. 

She has taught writing at Portland Community College, BYU Hawaii and Clatsop Community College. She currently writes from a 100-year-old house in Astoria, Oregon.