Marilyn Stablein

A multidisciplinary artist, Marilyn Stablein (she/her) works in poetry, fiction, memoir, and performance. She is the author of Vermin: a Traveler’s Bestiary (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018), Milepost 27: Poems (Black Heron Press, 2019), Houseboat on the Ganges & A Room in Kathmandu (Chin Music Press, 2019), and The Company of Crows (Book Arts Editions, 2022), among other books. 

Her awards include a New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, second place in the National Federation of Press Women Book Award, and a first place in poetry from the SouthWest Writers Writing Contest. She was also a Marie Alexander Poetry Series finalist, and has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

A former book critic for The Seattle Times, she was a founding board member of Seattle Arts and Lectures. Stablein also founded a nonprofit writers organization, The Literary Center, which published The Literary Center Quarterly. She earned an MA from the University of Houston and a BA in poetry with a minor in Tibetan. Her imprint Book Arts Editions publishes illustrated artist books.