Marie Manilla is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

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Her novel, The Patron Saint of Ugly, won the Weatherford Award and was the 2021 One Book, One West Virginia Common Read.

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Shrapnel received the Fred Bonnie Award for Best First Novel.

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Stories in her collection, Still Life with Plums, first appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Prairie Schooner, Mississippi Review, Calyx, and other journals.

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This is a Game I Play: A Memoir, will be published by University Press of

 

Kentucky in September 2026. 

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Marie lives in her hometown of Huntington, West Virginia, with her husband, Don Primerano.