Marie Manilla is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her stories have appeared in The Chicago Tribune, Prairie Schooner, Mississippi Review, Calyx Journal, Kestrel, The Portland Review, GSU Review, Timber Creek Review, Echo Ink Review, Yemassee Review, ViêtNow, Writers' Dojo, The Long Story, Carve Magazine, and other journals. 
She has two forthcoming books
Still Life with Plums, a collection of short stories
&
Shrapnel, a novel