Marya Hornbacher

About Marya

Marya Hornbacher is an award-winning writer of narrative nonfiction, essays, novels, and poetry, and the New York Times bestselling author of five books. She is the recipient of the Annie Dillard Award for Nonfiction, the Logan Fellowship for social justice journalism, the ASCAP Award for Music Journalism, the Fountain House Humanitarian Award, and other distinctions. Her books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Boston Globe, Smithsonian Magazine, Crazyhorse, AGNI, and many others. Her current project is a multi-media exploration of gender, property, and power in America.

My work as a writing teacher is driven by a love of language and literature, certainly, but more so by a commitment to literary and cultural polyphony. It is neither my desire nor my place to have a say in which stories matter or how they should be told. My place is to help students gain fluency in the language best suited for the articulation of their vision, their perception of the worlds that created them, and that they in turn create.