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under the gum tree  Fifth Anniversary Contest, Honorable Mention 
for
"Highest and Best"
An excerpt from the memoir, Nowhere Else I Want to Be

Published in their January 2017 issue

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New Millennium Writings 2016 Literary Nonfiction Award
for
"PICTURES IN LEAVES"​

 "For anyone who's ever shouted across the dinner table, debating with a loved one about war, dissent, and the true meaning of patriotism, Marsh's essay will resonate deeply." ​Editors, New Millenium Writings

​Dad had said the war made a man of him. But this is not the man I thought he meant, this man sick of fighting and longing for home. I thought he only meant the man who interrogated prisoners with sharp cynicism, the soldier whose testosterone thrust him through battle after battle.
​I thought he only meant the father who spouted tirades against war protesters and liberals.

Read the essay HERE.

Purchase the anthology HERE.

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Soundings Review 2014 First Publication Contest, Honorable Mention
for
"THE DRUMMER"

 You might think life at Miriam's House would be depressing. You might think Washington, D.C.'s homeless women with AIDS would have little hope, little to live for. Once you'd learned that most of our residents were recovering addicts and many had mental illness diagnoses, you'd imagine a dull, sad place.
​You'd guess that a small nonprofit with a tight budget would be unable to muster the resources needed to lacquer bright season cheer over such lives. You'd be wrong.

Read the essay here.

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LITERARY JOURNALS
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Coming in Spring/Summer 2018
"What She Doesn't Say"
The Tishman Review
- ​AND -
"Requiem for the Fall"
River Teeth
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"How to Build a Bonfire"
June 2017 - in The Los Angeles Review
read the essay HERE
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"If Memory"
​June 2017 - in Lunch Ticket
read the essay HERE
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"Prophetess"
Jenny Magazine
read the essay HERE / Also, read an interview on Jenny's blog HERE
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 "Lessons in a Chitlin"
   Featured Essay in bioStories, March 2015
                

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

                "Pain's Lessons Are Life Lessons"
                December 2014 Chronicle for the American Chronic Pain Association 
                   read the essay here           

                    Getting Old -- an anthology including my humorous essay, "Heritable Traits"

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PURCHASE "Nowhere Else I Want to Be"