Marilyn Bousquin

Marilyn Bousquin is the founder of Writing Women’s Lives, where she teaches online writing classes, mentors women who write about real life, and promotes literature about women’s lives. An excerpt of her memoir in progress, Searching for Salt, appears in Kate Hopper’s Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers.

She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Ashland University and an MA in children’s literature from Simmons College. Marilyn has worked as an educational writer and editor, and as a children’s book reviewer. She teaches composition at Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Virginia, where she lives with her husband and son.

Learn more about her classes and mentoring program at Writing Women’s Lives, where she also blogs about women’s writing, women’s literature, and women’s lives as worthy of literature.