Marisha Chamberlain is a multi-genre writer. Her collaboration, Mortals & Angels premiered at Carnegie Hall, a companion piece to The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass, which continues to be performed all over the world. Her stage plays are likewise produced all over, including upcoming productions in Guatemala, Ontario, and London. Her debut novel, The Rose Variations, was published by Soho Press, and garnered rave reviews in the New York Times. Her play, Scheherazade, won the Dramatists Guild/CBS National regional and national awards, and in her screenplay version, played on public television across the country, and was screened at the British Film Institute Festival in the category of Best of American Public Television. She is currently at work on her fourth novel manuscript, a family saga with the working title: Nude Ascending a Suitcase. She has taught creative writing at Carleton, Macalester, and Augsburg Colleges, at Hamline University, the University of Minnesota Creative Writing Program, and Universytet Marie Curie Sklowdowskiej in Lublin, Poland.