Marissa Higgins*

Marissa Higgins is a lesbian journalist and recipient of a 2020 D.C. Arts & Humanities Fellowship grant as well as a Tin House winter workshop scholar and Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center summer fellow in memoir. Her work has appeared in the Best American Food Writing 2018, Catapult, Rumpus, Atlantic, NPR, Washington Post, Florida Review, Lost Balloon, and elsewhere. She is represented by Katie Grimm and is working on an adult, literary novel.

Age Category: Adult

Expertise: Pitching (for magazines, freelancing, etc), querying (for agents), fellowship and grant applications (how to write a personal statement, do I need references, etc), writing queer fiction and nonfiction, workshop dynamics (what to expect, friendships, etc), how to have a writing career without an MFA.

Also a Submission Package Reviewer!