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“Ghosts in the Black Forest” | Gold Solas Award Winner, Love Story, Travelers Tales 2023

“Cornered in Madrid” | Soundtrack of Travel Competition Finalist, Intrepid Times 2023

Anton Chekhov Award for Flash Fiction Contest Distinguished Finalist 2021 for “False Positives”

Solas Award Honorable Mention 2021, Travelers Tales for “Where I’ve Been”

My Paper Ghosts Vintage Photo Story Contest Honorable Mention 2021 for “Breezy Girl on a High Balcony”

Keynote event at Dominican University’s MFA in Creative Writing January 2020 residency: Marianne Rogoff’s 10-minute play “Dancing with J. Alfred Prufrock” was performed on Saturday January 11 @7pm

In Fall 2019, the play debuted as part of the Fringe Festival with shows at Allegro Ballroom in Richmond, Dance Arts Studio in San Rafael, and Aldersly in San Rafael.

Lucid Moments: Books as Viewfinders was a semifinalist for the 2019 Tamaqua Award for a Book of Essays from Hidden River Arts.

“BFFs” is a Finalist for the Hemingway Flash Fiction Prize and was published in Fiction Southeast in November 2019; featured on Story Radio Podcast (June 2020)

“Consuela Speaks Her Mind” Finalist in Narrative Magazine’s Spring 2018 Story Contest.

In 2018, Marianne Rogoff’s work also made the Short List for the Bath International Novella-in-Flash Award, Top 10 for Sequestrum’s Editor’s Reprint Award, and Top 10 for the Tillie Olsen Short Story Award.

Her story “Attention” was one of three Tillie Olsen Award Top 10 winners selected for publication in the July 2018 issue of Tishman Review.

Honored to be an invited alumni reader for 5-year anniversary celebration of Get Lit Reading Series in Petaluma, July 12, 2018, 7pm at Aqus Cafe, Thanks, Dani Burlison and Kara Vernor!

Pushcart Prize nominated story collection Love Is Blind in One Eye: 7 Stories published by Shebooks in May 2016, is available in ebook and print. 

10-minute play "Common Tongues" among nine shorts selected for staged readings at Mill Valley Public Library's February Shorts Festival! Thanks to Lavinia Spalding, who first published this piece as a short story in The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011. Performed at Creekside Room Tuesday February 23, 2016.

Pints & Prose, March 17, 2015, 6-9pm, Peri's Fairfax, Featured Guest Reader with the Tuesday Night Writers, followed by Open Mic, strictly 5 minutes, then Live Music.

LitQuake: LitCrawl at Rebound Books, San Rafael. Saturday October 11, 2014, 10am-11am. Reading of travel stories with Laura McAndish King and Lisa Alpine. 

Reading at Get Lit with other women travel writers on Wednesday July 23, 2014, 7pm, Corkscrew Wine Bar, Petaluma, CA.

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LITSEEN Interview / Spring 2017

“Marianne Rogoff on the Solid Round Oak Table and the Early Vote of Confidence” + video reading of “Exhale, Laughing” filmed by Evan Karp

Featured in The Rumpus "Notable San Francisco" column, 5/10-5/16

BLOG HOP Interview / Summer 2014

Marianne Rogoff's friend Frances Lefkowitz, SheBooks editor, flash fictionista, and author of the stellar memoir To Have Not, tagged her in a “blog hop.” In this chain, started by publisher Mark Cunningham, writers answer questions about “character” in their recent or upcoming books. Most of these books are novels so Frances challenged Marianne to address the fact that her new story collection from SheBooks, Love Is Blind in One Eye: 7 Stories, is "a different kind of memoir," both fiction and nonfiction.

THE QUESTIONS

What is the name of your character?

Jewel is the name I call myself in my stories. (In academic writing I call myself Moi.)

Is s/he fictional or a historic person?

Jewel is real; what happens is unreal, even when it really happened.

Love Is Blind in One Eye is a different kind of memoir, told in stories with elements of fiction. Whether a story happened in fact or not, Jewel is someone who veers wildly between wanting stability and peace, and craving adrenalin.

When and where is the story set?

The seven stories move through the stage of life between 25 and 45, when you are trying so hard to become yourself. Jewel moves in time and place from RCA Beach to Maui, Larkspur, San Miguel de Allende, Mill Valley, Lisbon, and Barcelona.

What should we know about Jewel? What is her personal goal?

My first book Silvie’s Life describes the beauty, joy, and real risks of new motherhood. Jewel’s journeys here take place before and since that life-altering experience. Jewel’s goal is to stay strong, stay in motion, more cautious and more fearless.

What is the main conflict? What messes up his/her life?

The main conflicts are revealed in the course of events and threaten to kill Jewel’s spirit. These are travel stories, near and far, and Jewel finds life everywhere is messy, tragic, strange, unpredictable, and also orderly, full of music, art, love, and surprises.

When can we expect the book to be published? Can we read more about it?

Love Is Blind in One Eye: 7 Stories was published May 2016 by Shebooks.

Previous Interviews with Marianne Rogoff:

With Lavinia Spalding, Editor, Best Women’s Travel Writing: Meet the Contributors

The Best that Women Can Write, Book Passage

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

New Direction in Humanities > The World 4.0: Convergences of Knowledges and Machines, Granada, Spain (June 2019)

ISAP Zurich: Jungian Odyssey (Supported in part by CCA Curriculum Development Grant) > Inner Ways of Knowing: Intuition, Insight, Inspiration, Zermatt, Switzerland (June 2016)

Pacifica Graduate Institute Public Programs > Imagination and Medicine III: Healing in an Age of Neuroscience (Oct 2011) > The Body in Depth Psychology with Stephen Aizenstat, Robert Bosnak, Ed Casey, Michael Kearney, Alan Kilpatrick, Richard Kradin, Ginette Paris, Robert Romanyshyn > Creating Healing Environments with Stephen Aizenstat, Robert Bosnak, Michael Kearney, Jon La Puma, Lawrence Spann, Elizabeth Nelson, Marion Woodman > Imagination and Medicine II: Healing in an Age of Neuroscience (Jan 2010) > Old and Young: Senex and Puer with James Hillman (April 2010)

Assisi Institute for Study of Archetypal Pattern Analysis > Psyche, Archetypes, and Eternal Patterns with Dennis Patrick Slattery, Michael Conforti, and Richard Tarnas (May 2009)

Dominican University of California > Big History Summer Institute: Speaker “Big History Through the Lens of Big Literature” (June 2017) > International Big History Association Conference (August 2014) > Big History Summer Institute: Big Bang to the Present (June 2013)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS > SPEAKER | PANELIST | WORKSHOP PRESENTER

MFA in Creative Writing Program, Dominican University of California (June 2020) > Writing for Health & Healing > Narrative Medicine in a Pandemic > Facing Fears for Healthcare Workers

Pessoa e Companhia – Associação Cultural > “Firewalking” as Narrative Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal (July 2019)

Mental Health & Arts Initiative > Expressive Writing as Narrative Medicine, San Francisco State University Psychology Seminars (Feb/March 2019)

MFA in Creative Writing Program, Dominican University of California (June 2018) > Brutal Aesthetics: Writing on Hard Subjects > How Big Is Your Ballroom? Panel on Publishing, with Terry Lucas and Judy Halebsky > Narrative Medicine: Panel on Outreach, with Courtney Donovan, John Fox, and Dawn Gross

Two Creative Writing Classes, Facultade de Letras, Universidade Lisboa (May 2018) > Fernando Pessoa and His Heteronyms: Possessing Multiple Selves within Us

Il Jornadas de Cuidados Paliativos Pediatricos (May 2018) > Silvie’s Life: Narrative Medicine and Palliative Care

MFA in Creative Writing Program, Dominican University of California (January 2018) > Writing Dialogue: Talk, with Thomas Burke > Off the Page & On the Air: On Reading in Public

MFA in Creative Writing Program, Dominican University of California (June 2017) > Organizing Principles: Holding the Story Together > Approaches to Narrative/Poetic Medicine > Writing about Real People: Truth & Ethics

Narrative Medicine Course, Universidad Catolico, Porto, and University of Lisbon, Portugal (June 2017) > Writing Silvie's Life: How It Happened and What It Has Meant

International Big History Association Conference, Dominican University of California (August 2014) > Teaching Big History Through the Lens of Big Literature

Young Rhetoricians’ Conference, Monterey, CA (June 2013) > Found Text Exercises: Locating Our Stance in Response to the World As We Find It

Young Rhetoricians’ Conference, Monterey, CA (June 2012) > The “Self-Forgetful” First-Person Point of View

Healthcare Ethics, Technologies, Politics, Georgetown Univ, Washington, DC (Nov 2010)

Compassionate Friends National Conference, Portland, OR (July 2009)

National Perinatal Bereavement Conference, Chicago (Oct 2006): Saying No to Treatment 

On Estar Grávida é Estar de Esperanças [Silvie’s Life, in translation] > Il Seminário de Neonatologia, Viana do Costelo > Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Lisboa > Instituto de Bioética da Universidade Católica, Porto, Portugal (May 2006)

Humanity, Technology & Perinatology: Good Ethics Based on Good Information, San Diego (Oct, 2004) > Palliative Care: Preparing for the Transition

COMMUNITY SERVICE

California Writers Club–Marin: Afternoon Workshop > Writing Travel Stories (Feb 2012)

California Writers Club–Berkeley: One-Day Workshops > Sense of Place (Nov 2010) > Writing Travel Stories (April 2010) > Art of the Noun (Nov 2009)

Strategies for Learning, Oakland > Writing Specialist: Berkeley Montessori School Journalism Group (Fall 2008)

Marin Brain Injury Network > Editor: Poetry by center participants (Spring 2005)

Writing for Your Health > Leader: Group for cancer patients writing their life stories (2002–2003)

Marin Women's Hall of Fame > Facilitated biography writing project with nonfiction class at Redwood High School (Fall 2003) > Wrote biographies of Isabel Allende, Beth Ashley, Rosie Casals, Sister Samuel Conlan (1990s)

Kent Middle School > Facilitator: Journalism Club for students to write and produce school newspaper (1999–2003)