Marianne Chan

Marianne Chan grew up in Stuttgart, Germany, and Lansing, Michigan. She is the author of “All Heathens” (Sarabande Books, 2020), which was the winner of the 2021 GLCA New Writers Award, and “Leaving Biddle City” (Sarabande Books, 2024). Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Best American Poetry, New England Review, Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Old Dominion University and teaches poetry in the Warren Wilson College MFA program for Writers.

CPC Readings

Monday, September 15, 2025
Blue Hour Reading Series
with Meghann Plunkett
Haymarket House

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