Tayari's Blog: Marie Mutsuki Mockett, #3 of the Amazing 8

Posted by TayariJones on June 1, 2009 06:02 AM
Filed under Guest Bloggers

Here is another installment of "The Amazing Eight." Marie Mutsuki Mockett is the author of Picking Bones From Ash which will be published by Graywolf Press in September.


Marie Mockett

Marie Mutsuki Mockett is a writer who lives in New York. Her fiction, essays and poetry have been published or are forthcoming in Agni, Epoch, South Dakota Review, New Delta Review, North Dakota Quarterly, The Portland Review, LIT, The Texas Review, Primavera, Blue Mesa, Carquinez Poetry Review, The Distillery, Fugue, The Ledge, West Wind Review, The Griffin, and Berkeley Poetry Review.

Now you have a listing of her accomplishments, but I urge you to trot over to her webpage and read the more personal account of her journey that is posted there.

Below is her essay about publishing her debut novel as a grown woman. It's called "The Perfect Age To Get Published." I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.

(author photo by the incredible genius Rachel Elliza Griffiths.)

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Comment #1, by hdurrow [TypeKey Profile Page]

Thank you for this Tayari! I recently learned about Marie's work and am very excited to read her novel. Her journey to publication resonates with me --as my debut novel comes out next year --in my 40th year!

June 1, 2009 12:58 PM

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