Bio

Marianne Lonsdale writes personal essays, fiction, and literary interviews. She’s looking for an agent for her first novel, Finding Nora, a story set in Oakland in 1991 about love and friendship during the AIDs epidemic. Her work has been published in Literary Mama, Grown and Flown, Pulse, several anthologies, and has aired on KQED. Marianne has read at various events including San Francisco’s Litquake festival, and is honored to be an alumna of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley.

Marianne is committed to building community among writers. She’s a co-founder of the Write On Mamas and has coordinated several readings for the group, including five for San Francisco’s Lit Crawl, as well as monthly salons at a local library.

She was invited twice to participate in The O’Hanlon Center for the Arts Local Women Writers Series.

Marianne continues to seek out new ways to be of value to the literary community, and was recently a judge for Scholastic Awards of writing portfolios of high school seniors.