Marianne like Joanna from Episode 1 is another member of
my chosen family and she is an amazing Swiftie! She totally has a wikipedia page, she's so famous: "Monson is an American author of women's history and children's books; and a teacher (currently at Clatsop Community College
near her home in Astoria, Oregon). She is the founder of a literary nonprofit, The Writer's Guild.
She earned a BA in Honors English from BYU, a Masters in
Creative Writing from Vermont College and a Masters in English pedagogy from Pacific University. Monson was Managing Editor at Beyond Words Publishing, where she edited a number of best-selling titles. She has also taught English and creative writing at Portland Community College and at BYU-Hawaii. She has written and published several books for adults and children as well as historical articles in Rain Magazine, Coast Weekend, Our Coast.
Among the twelve books Monson has written and published she uses the names of her two children (Nathan and Aria) for the protagonists' names. With Michelle Roehm McCann and David Hohn, Monson wrote "Finding
Fairies: Secrets for Attracting Little People from Around the World" (2004, Whitecap Books, Limited), and edited the "Girls Know Best" series (1999, three volumes, Beyond Words Publishing).
Monson is best known for her women's history books,
including nonfiction titles "Frontier Grit: the Unlikely True Stories of Pioneer Women" (2016) and "Women of the Blue & Gray: Mothers, Medics, Soldiers, Spies of the Civil War" (Shadow Mountain Press, 2018). Her historical fiction novel about the life of Martha Hughes Cannon, "Her Quiet Revolution: A Novel of Martha Hughes Cannon, Frontier Doctor and First Female State Senator" was released in Spring 2020 in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of US women's suffrage. Monson's latest novel "The Opera
Sisters" was published in September 2022.
