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Marnie Colton

Marnie Colton holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College and is in the process of submitting her poems for publication. She has recently participated in local writing workshops at the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Writers' Center in Bethesda, MD. She currently works as an editorial assistant at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institute in Baltimore.

Books reviewed by Marnie Colton

Darwin (10/17/12)
The Half-Finished Heaven (11/17/11)
Hemingway's Boat (11/17/11)
Killer Verse (10/19/11)
Once Upon a River (09/07/11)
I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive (06/15/11)
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle (05/12/11)
Journal of a UFO Investigator (03/24/11)
You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know (02/03/11)
Selected Poems (11/17/10)
The Ada Poems (10/20/10)
A Visit from the Goon Squad (07/08/10)
What Becomes (04/07/10)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (03/03/10)
Too Much Happiness (11/19/09)
Love and Summer (10/07/09)
Big Machine (09/23/09)
Lake with No Name (08/12/09)
The Thing Around Your Neck (07/08/09)
Wedlock (05/21/09)
Doghead (04/01/09)

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