Marian Blue began working as a journalist in 1972 for San Miguel Basin Forum in western Colorado. After that, she worked as freelance and staff for a variety of newspapers and maga...view moreMarian Blue began working as a journalist in 1972 for San Miguel Basin Forum in western Colorado. After that, she worked as freelance and staff for a variety of newspapers and magazines, in the U.S. and abroad, both print and online; some of her work has been collected into anthologies. She began doing editing work in the 1980s, both for magazines and for books. Books she has written include nonfiction and poetry. Along the way, she taught writing and communication classes for Writers Digest Schools and various community schools and colleges, finally retiring from Skagit Valley College in Washington. Today she writes and edits from her small farm on Whidbey Island.view less