Marlene Samuels

Marlene Samuels

By training and career, Marlene Samuels is a research sociologist. She earned her MA and Ph.D. in sociology from University of Chicago, where she worked as a researcher with the National Opinion Research Center, followed by a position as Research Director for an international public relations firm. While she conducted the research needed to rewrite and publish her mother’s Holocaust memoir, The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival, she discovered her dormant writing interests and has since seen her non-academic writing published in national literary journals and eZines. In 2013, Marlene published a book about off-line research entitled, When Digital Isn’t Real: Fact Finding Offline for Serious Writers, and she is currently finish her next book, Where Mr. Hitler Hides Inside My Head: A Memoir In Short Stories. Besides teaching, writing, and research, Marlene serves on University of Chicago’s Visiting Committee to the Graduate School and on the Story Circle Network’s board. After AROHO’s 2013 retreat, Marlene worked on the Writer-to-Writer Interview Project with three retreat “sisters.” It was then that she committed to sponsor The American Dream Fellowship. www.marlenesamuels.com Consultant