Graham Marema is a writer, graphic designer, and activist from East Tennessee. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wyoming with a concurrent degree in Environment and Natural Resources. You can read her fiction, nonfiction, and the somewhere-in-betweens at the American Literary Journal, Litro Magazine, and Midwest Weird, among others.
Honors & Awards
Nominated for Best of the Net 2026
Midwest Weird
2nd Place Winner for Illustration in Western Confluence
The Society of Professional Journalists Top of the Rockies competition
Twice-Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Short Fiction
3Elements Review & the American Literary Review
Twice-Recipient of Promoting Intellectual Engagement Teaching Award
University of Wyoming, 2023 & 2024
Nominated for Haub School Outstanding Graduate Student
University of Wyoming, 2024
Selected as Featured Artist of Wild & Working Lands Film Festival
Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, April 2023
Selected for Neltje Center Science Communication Writing Residency
Neltje Center, March 2023
1st place Winner of Vereen Bell Award for Short Fiction
Davidson College, 2017, Judged by Kazim Ali
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