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| Marianne Wolf has a distinguished flare for communications with a spark for historical stories. Her creativity energy and collaboration have proven invaluable to her service on the Boards of the Illinois Woman’s Press Association and the National Federation of Press Women; the Illinois Wesleyan University Alumni Executive Board; the Illinois Wesleyan University Chicago Alumni Board; the TallGrass Writers Guild and the Wishfit Advisory Board. A detail-oriented professional, her career has been a template of support for women seeking to retool, redesign and reinvent their careers. With deep roots in family, faith, and fairness, Marianne has provided leadership to local and federal government offices including developing a volunteer program and managing a U.S. Senate office. She was named the 2008 Communicator of Achievement by the Illinois Woman’s Press Association, which cited her service to her community, and her achievements as a book author and fiction writer. In 2011, Marianne’s writing earned her 1st Place national honors for Internal Communications. On the state level her writing achieved state honors in the 75th Mate E. Palmer Communications Competition for Internal Communications, Brochure and writing for the Web. In 2010, her fiction captured 1st Place national and state honors Marianne's award winning fiction appears in the acclaimed Black and White series published by Outrider Press, Inc.in affiliation with the TallGrass Writers Guild. Family Gatherings (2003), on holidays, weddings, and wakes anthology Things That Go Bump in the Night, the 2004 collection on The Supernatural Falling in Love Again (2005), the anthology on second chances at romance Vacations: the Good, the Bad & the Ugly (2006), the anthology on "Are we there yet?" A Walk Through My Garden (2007), the flower pots to grand landscapes anthology Wild Things (2008), dedicated to the wildness in all things bright and beautiful domestic and otherwise Fearsome Fascinations (2009), writings on bad boys, vamps, werewolves, and forbidden fruits of all kinds Her historical work includes the history of Joliet, Illinois, the Joliet Rivals Club (the oldest men’s organization in Illinois) and Unlocking History – Marianne’s journey of discovery on a quest to retrieve a priceless memento of a Kappa Kappa Gamma sister. Marianne is currently working on the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sesquicentennial History project. |
| photograph by:Chris Guillen |
