Marianne Chan grew up in Stuttgart, Germany, and Lansing, Michigan. She is the author of All Heathens (Sarabande Books, 2020), winner of the 2021 GLCA New Writers Award for Poetry. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly Review, New England Review, Kenyon Review, Cincinnati Review, Southern Indiana Review, and elsewhere. She is currently pursuing a PhD in creative writing at the University of Cincinnati.
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