Laura Marellos first novel Claiming Kin (Guernica Editions 2010) was a finalist for the Paterson Prize in Fiction. Her second novel, Tenants of the Hotel Biron (Guernica Editions 2012) was given a bilingual staged reading at the Gallerie Ivana Gavardie in Paris the fall of its release. Her third novel, Maniac Drifter was released from Guernica Editions on August 1st 2016.Tailwinds Press published Marellos The Gender of Inanimate Objects and Other Stories in 2015; it was shorlisted for the Saroyan Prize from Stanford University Library. Marellos poetry chapbook Balzacs Robe was the second finalist for the Finishing Line Press New Women Writers Award (Finishing Line Press 2016). Laura Marello has written twelve books. She has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Wallace E. Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, and a Fine Arts Work Center Provincetown Fellowship. She has benefited from residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Millay, Montalvo and Djerassi. Claiming Kin (Guernica 2009), was nominated for the PEN/Bingham Award.
"Laura Marellos hilarious new novel features a surreal cast of characters, among them the Souza Family (Provincetowns version of the Kennedys. They were handsome, glamorous, Catholic and doomed), Voodoo Woman, and a parrot named Sydney Greenstreet. We come to know them all fishermen, artists, drug dealers, owners of bars both gay and straight through the lens of a winsome young amnesiac whose own past is shrouded in mystery. Marellos passion for art and film, seen in her earlier work, helps propel the action forward to its riotous conclusion; her love for the glorious foibles of our human nature, rendered with compassion as well as humor, keeps us caring about what happens." -- Constance Solari, author of "Sophies Fire" "Maniac Drifter is a first-rate novel, stylistically alive to the sounds, smells, and sights of unorthodox Provincetown in the 1980s. Marellos new novel shows Provincetown's carnival mindset, disguises, and everyday theater, and forgiveness that shames much of conventional America. The book is rich with the backdrop of Provincetowns history as a fishing community, and artists community. The young heroine is the witness; her vision is vicarious. She suffers a specific amnesia, which forms the deep mystery of the novel. She is also involved with the central crime of the novel that seeks resolution. What she will not remember leaves her non-judgmental but in pain. Only the townspeople in Provincetown can help, almost allowing her to love again, leaving the reader to hope that she will, someday. What a very fine writer, and explorer of people and place we have in Laura Marello!" -- Paul Nelson, author of Burning the Furniture
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