Writings
Anne Marina Pellicciotto
Author | Creativity Coach | Workshop Leader
Marina's adventures inform her writing. Cross-culturally curious and poly-lingual, she's spent a year teaching English in a fishing village in Northeast Brazil, two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in rural Mexico, and four years living nomadically across America on a healing quest.
As a creativity workshop facilitator and motivational speaker, Marina engages her audiences in the process of their own artistic transformation—helping them move from passion to idea into embodied action on the page.
Books
Strings Attached: A Memoir of Music, Marriage and Escape
Status: complete, seeking representation
A reckoning with childhood sexual abuse, family silence, and the tangled legacy of a charismatic predator. Marina traces how violation shaped her life—and how she finally learned to reclaim her voice, her body, and her power.
Crooked Spine Chronicles: A Cross-Country Nomad Healing Journey
Status: in progress
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When degenerative scoliosis forced Marina to stop running from her pain, she spent four years on a nomadic healing journey across America. Part travelogue, part healing manual, this book maps the geography of transformation—from suicide ideation to embodied joy, one breath at a time.
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Dance the Huapango: Mad-cap Adventures of a Mid-Career Peace Corps Volunteer
Status: first draft complete
Stories from three years of service in rural Mexico, where cultural immersion, linguistic fumbling, and unexpected friendships taught Marina what it means to truly see and be seen.
Publications
New and Upcoming
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"My Doctor Gave Me A Devastating Diagnosis. A Year Later, My Follow-Up X-Rays Revealed Something Shocking." - HuffPost Personal (Feb 7 2026)
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"Sweet Sixty: Love Beyond the Imprint of Sixteen" - The Rumpus (Q1 2026)
Selected Publications
Essays & Creative Nonfiction:
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"Saudade Brazil aka Pineapple Blues," Grace in Love, Grace & Gravity Literary Anthology Volume X (May 2023) - Editor's Prize, Pushcart Prize Nomination
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"How a Hawk Lured Me Out of a Dark Holler Into the Creative Light," Women Who Submit (June 2021)
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"The Election Wasn't Stolen, But the Inauguration Was," The Independent (UK, January 2021)
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"Rediscovering Myself in Brazil," More Magazine
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"Eye of a Stranger: Discovering Power through the Lens," Hear Us Roar! 28 Stories of Everyday Women Leading Extraordinary Lives
Poetry:
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"Consummation," North Carolina Bards Poetry Anthology 2024
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"Courtship," Verse-Virtual (May 2022)
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"High Sierra Synchronicity," video poem, Tales from the Trail
Ongoing:
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Healing from Within - Substack exploring wounds, love, Tantric goddess energy, and the power to heal
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SeeChange Blog - Essays on transformation and embodied living
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Artist Residencies:
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Firefly Lodge, Asheville, NC - Writer-in-residence (July-September 2023)
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Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow, Eureka Springs, AR (November-December 2021)
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Woodbridge Writers Retreat, Virginia (May 2018)
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Sewanee Writers' Conference (Summer 2010)
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Con Serrat Artist Residence, Pyrenees, Spain (Winter 2025/26) - Invited artist resident
Literary Community:
Marina co-facilitates the DC Writers Salon (weekly since 2019) and is an active member of The Inner Loop, the Women's National Book Association, Non-Fiction Writers Association, Grace & Gravity DC Women Writers, and The Washington Forum. She has been a finalist at DC Story Slam and presents regularly at literary events throughout the DC-MD-VA region.