Marnie Mueller
Award-winning novelist Marnie Mueller was born in the Tule Lake Japanese American Segregation Camp in northern California. In 1963, Mueller joined the Peace Corps and spent two years in Guayaquil, Ecuador, living and working in an urban barrio.
She has written three novels, Green Fires: A Novel of the Ecuadorian Rainforest, .... more
Award-winning novelist Marnie Mueller was born in the Tule Lake Japanese American Segregation Camp in northern California. In 1963, Mueller joined the Peace Corps and spent two years in Guayaquil, Ecuador, living and working in an urban barrio.
She has written three novels, Green Fires: A Novel of the Ecuadorian Rainforest, The Climate of the Country, and My Mother's Island.
Mueller’s most recent book, The Showgirl and the Writer, was published by Peace Corps Writers on July 14, 2023, and updated in 2024. The book is a hybrid memoir/biography in which she has integrated the story of her own birth to Caucasian parents in the Tule Lake Japanese American High-Security Camp with the complex tale of her friend, Mary Mon Toy, a Nisei performer who was Incarcerated in the Minidoka Camp in Idaho during WWII.
Mueller is a member of Women Writing Women's Lives, The Authors Guild, PEN Center USA, and a voting member of the National Book Critics Circle. She has been a MacDowell Fellow.
She lives in New York City and Sharon, Connecticut, with her husband, Fritz Mueller.
Visit Marnie's website at https://www.marniemueller.com/
