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Laura Marello

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Laura Marello's seventh book Matisse: The Only Blue, a novel about the second half of painter Henri Matisse's life, set in the south of France, is forthcoming in October 2022 from Guernica Editions, and available for preorder. Her poetry chapbook Balzac's Robe was the second finalist in Finishing Line Press' New Women's Voices Series. Her collection of stories, The Gender of Inanimate Objects is shortlisted for the Saroyan Prize. Her first and second and third novels, Claiming Kin (finalist for the Patterson Prize in Fiction, Tenants of the Hotel Biron, and Maniac Drifter, are also available at booksellers and online websites for booksellers.

Marello is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, Wallace Stegner Fellowship fro
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The Tenants of the Hotel Biron

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Balzac's Robe and Other Poems

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Claiming Kin (Picas series)

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