About

Carol D. Marsh, a 2014 graduate of Goucher College’s MFA in Creative Nonfiction program, has won essay awards from Solstice Literary Journal, New Millennium Writings, Under the Gum Tree, and Soundings Review. Other essays have appeared in Los Angeles Review’s Best of Annual print edition, River Teeth, Chautauqua Journal, and Vassar Review, among many others. Bamboo Dart published her chapbook, Border Between: A Symphony in Essays, in 2022.

Marsh’s book, "Nowhere Else I Want to Be: A Memoir" (2017), was a Finalist in the Sarton Women’s Book Award, the Finalist in National Indie Excellence Awards, and a Finalist in Next Generation Indie Book Awards.

A hybrid memoir, "Crybaby: Reflections on Life as a Highly Sensitive Person," is completed and awaiting final contract signing with an indie publisher (August 2025).

Featured Work

Border/Between: A Symphony in Essays, Bamboo Dart Press

2022
CHAPBOOK - Border/Between: A Symphony in Essays

In Border/Between, Carol Marsh writes about death, addictions and war while also exploring how written form and expression have a counterpart in music. Structured on the 4-movement symphony and incorporating other forms such as the rock song and the requiem, Border/Between seeks and finds its place in what lies between the sharp and unforgiving edges of ideology and judgment. In refusing to allow borders to govern her, Marsh is able to bring compassion and hope to what seems irredeemable.

Chapbook is available at Bamboo Dart Press: https://www.bamboodartpress.com/store/carol_d_marsh-border-between_a_symphony_in_essays.html

Other Works

  • I'm Sorry, Monica: MeToo, Monica and Me in PenDust Radio

    2022

  • Deep Within, Far Beyond in The Vassar Review

    2021

  • How to Move Your Life in Aji Magazine

    2021

  • 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

  • Nowhere Else I Want to Be: A Memoir

    2017

Awards and Recognition

  • WINNER - Tucson Book Festival's Literary Nonfiction Award 2021
  • 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