Laura Marello

Laura Marello's novels The Gender of Inanimate Objects (2015), and The Tenants of the Hotel Biron (2012), are now available on Amazon. Marello is available to give readings, book signings, and visit book clubs.

Actors gave a reading of The Tenants of the Hotel Biron in French and English at the Galerie Arnaud-Lefebvre in Paris, summer 2012. Marello's first novel, Claiming Kin, was one of five finalists for the Paterson Fiction Award, along with Joyce Maynard and was nominated for a Pen/Bingham award. Marello is the recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Grant, Wallace E. Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, and a Fine Arts Work Center Provincetown Fellowship. She has been awarded writer's residencies at MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Millay Colony, Montalvo Center for the Arts and the Djerassi Foundation. She has received grants from the Barbara Deming Fund and the Vogelstein Foundation. Laura Marello grew up in New York and Los Angeles. She has lived most of her adult life in northern California, Oregon, Colorado, Paris France, and on Cape Cod.