Marianne Monson

{{Short description|American writer (born 1975)}}

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| birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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| alma_mater = Brigham Young University, Vermont College, Pacific University

| genre = Children's literature, fantasy, LDS fiction, Women's History

| nationality = American

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Marianne Monson (1975) 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, [http://www.thewritersguild.org The Writer's Guild].

She earned a BA in Honors English degree from BYU, a Master's degree in Creative Writing from Vermont College and a Master's 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.cover jacket blurb on Blue & Gray book She has written and published several books for adults and children as well as historical articles in Rain Magazine, Coast Weekend,{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/eomediacc/docs/ocm_2019|title = Our Coast Magazine 2019| date=20 March 2019 }} Our Coast; she has also published in the Ensign and Friend LDS magazines (her faith).

Among the twelve books Monson has written and published are the Enchanted Tunnels series of children's fiction books{{cite web|title=Deseret Book |url=http://deseretbook.com/Enchanted-Tunnels-Book-2-Escape-Egypt-Marianne-Monson/i/5041586|work=The Enchanted Tunnels, Book 2: Escape from Egypt|accessdate=15 October 2011}} for LDS children and others, and The Water is Wide{{cite web|work=Deseret Book|url=http://deseretbook.com/Mima-Journals-Vol-1-Water-Wide-Marianne-Monson/i/5045530|title=The Mima Journals, Vol. 1: The Water is Wide|accessdate=23 October 2011}} (2010, Deseret Book), which concerned an ancestor who emigrated to Utah but did not join the LDS church.{{cite web|title=Fire and Ice Blog|url=http://fireandicephoto.blogspot.com/2010/11/book-review-water-is-wide.html|work=Book Review: The Water is Wide by Marianne Monson|accessdate=23 October 2011}}{{cite web|title=cynsations blog |url=http://cynleitichsmith.livejournal.com/333953.html |work=New Voice: Marianne Monson on The Water is Wide |accessdate=23 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120424175926/http://cynleitichsmith.livejournal.com/333953.html |archivedate=24 April 2012 }} In the "Enchanted Tunnels" children's books: Pioneer Puzzle,{{cite book|via=Amazon|title=Pioneer Puzzle|isbn=978-1606416693|last1=Monson|first1=Marianne|year=2010|publisher=Deseret Book }} Escape From Egypt, Journey To Jerusalem, and Wandering In The Wilderness (all 2010 by Deseret Book); 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){{Cite book|isbn=978-1629722276|title=Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women|last1=Monson|first1=Marianne|year=2016|publisher=Shadow Mountain }} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mariannemonson.com/books/|title=Mariannemonson - Books}}{{cite book|last=Monson |first=Marianne |title= Her Quiet Revolution: A Novel of Martha Hughes Cannon, Frontier Doctor and First Female State Senator |publisher=Shadow Mountain Press |date=2020 |isbn= 9781629726090}} Monson's latest novel, The Opera Sisters, was published in September 2022.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mariannemonson.com/books/|title=Mariannemonson - Books}}