Manilla, Marie

Marie Manilla is a West Virginia native who delights in exploding Appalachian stereotypes in her fiction. Her books include Still Life with Plums: Short Stories (2010); Shrapnel (2012), winner of the Fred Bonnie Award for Best First Novel and The Patron Saint of Ugly (2014), winner of the Weatherford Award. Marie lives in her hometown of Huntington, and is a visiting faculty member in West Virginia Wesleyan's Low-Residency MFA Program. Marie's homepage is found at www.mariemanilla.com.