Marie DeNoia Aronsohn, born and raised in New Jersey, is an author, communications strategist, professor of media and creative writing, and journalist. Her extensive body of work in reporting, anchoring, and producing has been featured on major television, internet, and radio outlets, including NJTV, WCBS-TV, CBS, MSNBC, MSNBC.com, and WNET. Among her many honors are two Emmys and five Emmy nominations. Marie's years covering politics, crime, climate science, health issues, the arts, and community life—along with her childhood at the Jersey Shore—have inspired and shaped her fiction writing.
As a novelist, Marie is drawn to the transformative power of enduring bonds, the heartbreak of lies we tell ourselves, the magic of discovering our own worth, and the courage it takes to evolve, to venture to the very edge of ourselves to find our way home.
Marie earned her MFA in fiction at Columbia University, where she worked with acclaimed writers and mentors including Gary Shteyngart, Amy Grace Loyd, and James Cañón. She attended Claire Keegan's writing seminar in Ireland and won The Berlin Literary Review Flash Fiction Contest.
