Marie Carter

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Introduction graduated from Edinburgh University with an MA in English Literature. She also worked for CHAPMAN literary magazine in Scotland. In 2000, she moved to New York City where she is currently an editor at Hanging Loose Press. She is the editor of WORD JIG: NEW FICTION FROM SCOTLAND (Hanging Loose, 2003) and co-editor of VOICES OF THE CITY (Hanging Loose Press, 2004). In 2004, she ran the PLANEHOPPING: SCOTTISH WRITERS IN NEW YORK readings series at the New York Public Library. Her work has been published in HANGING LOOSE, THE BROOKLYN RAIL, SPECTACLE (circus magazine), turntablebluelight.com, yogacitynyc.com among others and in THE BEST CREATIVE NONFICTION (W. W. Norton, 2007) and VOICES OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (LaChance, 2009). She completed a residency at the MacDowell Colony in 2006. She studies fixed trapeze and yoga. Her first book, THE TRAPEZE DIARIES, was published by Hanging Loose Press in 2008. She teaches Memoir Writing at Gotham Writer's Workshop. Currently she's working on a new memoir, LET THE SHADOWS COME.