Marjorie Hudson was born in a small town in Illinois, raised in Washington, D.C., and now lives and writes in rural North Carolina. A 2012 Arts Council Fellowship recipient, Hudson has published stories, essays, and poems in 5 anthologies and many magazines and journals, including Story, Yankee, West Branch, Garden & Gun, and National Parks. Two of her stories were Pushcart Special Mentions.

A new novel, INDIGO FIELD, is forthcoming from Regal House Publishing in March 2023. Hudson' story collection, ACCIDENTAL BIRDS OF THE CAROLINAS received many honors—including the PEN/Hemingway Honorable Mention for Distinguished First Fiction, a Novello Literary Award Finalist, Perpetual Folly Best Story Collection of the Year, and a nominee for the Southern Independent Booksellers Award. The stories explore the struggles and wonderment of newcomers encountering an almost mystical American South. From English explorers to runaway brides, from carnies to retirees, all seek a place to rest, a new home in a strange land.
Hudson is also author of SEARCHING FOR VIRGINIA DARE, a North Carolina Arts Council Notable Book. Written in a mosaic form that includes reportage, interview, road trip, lyric line, fiction, and memoir, it explores the mysterious fate of America's first English baby born in the New World--part of the famous Lost Colony of Roanoke Island, a North Carolina Arts Council Notable Book. Taught in MFA programs from Anchorage, Alaska, to Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Hudson teaches adult writers in her weekly Kitchen Table Workshops, and she lectures on history and creative writing through the North Carolina Humanities Council Road Scholars program. A community literary activist, Hudson has created and directed coffeehouses, salons, fundraisers, community reads, community writing programs, literary festivals and conferences. She has also worked with visual artists to create public installations celebrating the word (Karrie Hovey (Bay Area), (Roxanne Thomas (NC). She has been Artist in Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito,CA), Ucross (Wyoming), and Hedgebrook Center for Women Writers, and was named Sarah Belk Gambrell Artist Educator of the Year. Her MFA in Creative Writing is from Warren Wilson College.

For more information, see www.marjoriehudson.com