Author: Joan Marcus

Essays and stories by Joan Marcus appear in The Sun, Fourth Genre, The Georgia Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Laurel Review, Gulf Coast, Statement of Record, and elsewhere. She is a two-time winner of the Constance Saltonstall grant for upstate New York writers. Avoidant Type, her memoir-in-progress, tells the story of her battle with medical anxiety. She lives in Ithaca, NY and teaches fiction and narrative nonfiction at Ithaca College.