About

Carol D. Marsh, a 2014 graduate of Goucher College’s MFA in Creative Nonfiction program, has won essay awards from Solstice Literary Journal (2020), New Millennium Writings (2016), Under the Gum Tree (2017), and Soundings Review (2014). Other essays have appeared in Los Angeles Review’s Best of Annual print edition, River Teeth, Chautauqua Journal, and Lunch Ticket, among others. Marsh’s book, Nowhere Else I Want to Be: A Memoir, was a Finalist (Memoir) in the Sarton Women’s Book Award 2018.

Featured Work

Nowhere Else I Want to Be: A Memoir

2017

Nowhere Else I Want to Be is my memoir of seventeen years founding , leading and living in Miriam's House - a residence for Washington, DC's homeless women with AIDS.

Other Works

  • Deep Within, Far Beyond (in Chautauqua Journal)

    2020

  • Requiem for the Fall (River Teeth Journal)

    2018

  • How to Build A Bonfire (LA Review Best of the Year

    2018

Awards and Recognition

  • FINALIST - Solstice Literary Magazine Summer Contest 2020
  • FINALIST - May Sarton Book Award (Memoir) 2018
  • HONORABLE MENTION - Under the Gum Tree Fifth Anniversary Contest, 2017
  • WINNER - New Millennium Writings Literary Nonfiction Award, 2016
  • HONORABLE MENTION - Soundings Review First Publication Contest, 2014