Marie Manilla is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in The Chicago Tribune, Prairie Schooner, Mississippi Review, Calyx Journal, SouthWrit Large and other journals. Her novel SHRAPNEL won the Fred Bonnie Award for Best First Novel. STILL LIFE WITH PLUMS: Short Stories was a finalist for both The Weatherford Award and ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year.

Books by Marie Manilla

The Patron Saint of Ugly

by Marie Manilla - Fiction

Grace Ferrari sets out to prove that she is not a saint by spinning the tale of her family's tangled history of love, deception and transcendence --- learning along the way that the line between myth and reality is not always clear.