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Marissa Korbel writes essays, memoir, and poetry, and regularly interviews for literary journals. She is the current managing editor of The Rumpus where she has written a monthly column, The Thread , since 2017. She also curated and edited October 2019's theme month, On Monsters, for The Rumpus. From 2013-2015, she produced, and co-hosted the popular Dirty 30-Something podcast.
Marissa's essays have been featured in Harper's Bazaar , Guernica , Bitch Magazine , The Manifest Station , and the critically-acclaimed anthology, Burn it Down (Seal Press, 2019). To see all of her writing in one place, click here .
Marissa Korbel writes essays, memoir, and poetry, and regularly interviews authors and artists for literary journals and events. She is an editor at large at The Rumpus where she wrote a monthly column, The Thread , from 2017-2020. She also curated and The Rumpus' theme month, On Monsters, featuring essays by Lidia Yuknavitch, Jude Doyle, Aubrey Hirsch, Ira Sukrungruang, and others.