Marjorie Klein

Marjorie Klein's first novel, TEST PATTERN (Wm. Morrow Publishers, 2000; HarperCollins/ Perennial 2001, now an e-book) was a Barnes and Noble "Discover Great New Writers" selection. BOOM! A Miami Beach Story was published in 2021, and her third, TIME IN A BOTTLE (Black Rose Writing), was released Feb. 23, 2023. Her essays and narrative nonfiction have appeared in various publications, including 20 years of writing for Tropic, the Miami Herald's former Sunday magazine. Recipient of a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, she served as a preliminary judge for the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts for 13 years and is a member of the Flatiron Writers group in Asheville. She has taught at the University of Miami, Florida International University, Miami-Dade College, Warren Wilson College, University of North Carolina/Asheville’s Great Smokies Writers Program, and UNCA’s Osher Lifetime Learning Institute. A former resident of Miami for decades, she now lives in the Asheville, NC area.

On a more personal level: My fiction is often about Florida, even though I moved from Miami to the Asheville, NC area in 2008. I guess my brain was baked in the Sunshine State, because I can’t get its weirdness out of my writing mind. I loved Miami and sometimes didn't, but I was always mesmerized by its kaleidoscopic array of strange things. I would like to write about North Carolina someday, but I don’t feel I know it yet as intimately as I knew Miami. If and when I do, I will.