Award winning novelist Marnie Mueller was born in the Tule Lake Japanese American Segregation Camp in northern California. In 1963 Mueller joined the Peace Corps and spent two years in Guayaquil, Ecuador living and working in an urban barrio. She has written three novels, GREEN FIRES: A NOVEL OF THE ECUADORIAN RAINFOREST, THE CLIMATE OF THE COUNTRY, and MY MOTHER'S ISLAND. Mueller’s most recent book, THE SHOWGIRL AND THE WRITER was published by Peace Corps Writers on July 14, 2023. The book is a hybrid memoir/biography is in which she has integrated the story of her own birth to Caucasian parents in the Tule Lake Japanese American High Security Camp, with the complex tale of her friend, Mary Mon Toy, a Nisei performer who was Incarcerated in the Minidoka Camp in Idaho during WWII. Mueller is a member of Women Writing Women's Lives, The Authors Guild, PEN Center USA, and a voting member of the National Book Critics Circle. She has been a MacDowell Fellow. She lives in New York City and Sharon, Connecticut with her husband Fritz Mueller. Visit her website at https://www.marniemueller.com/
