Published Essays
SOLAMENTE EN SAN MIGUEL 2017, A Literary Celebration
Me Llamo Marianne Cañedo Bohr, an essay which celebrates the author’s Hispanic heritage, is included in an anthology about the extraordinary city of San Miguel De Allende, Mexico.
SOLAS AWARDS–Annual Awards by travel writing publisher, Travelers’ Tales, honoring excellence in travel writing.
2021
Corsica Interrupted–Gold Award in the Elder Travel category
2020
My Monemvasia–Bronze Award in the Destination Story category
2019
An Encounter in Montparnasse–Silver, Transformation category
2015
A Wide-Eyed Schoolgirl–Silver Award in the Travel and Transformation category
The Tour du Mont Blanc–Silver Award in the Travel and Sports category
The Marrakesh Express–Honorable Mention overall
From the Blog
My Monemvasia
My attraction to Monemvasia was immediate. This hardscrabble chunk off the southeastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula is a rocky piece of post-antiquity Greece, its back to modernity, its face to the cerulean sea. An earthquake in 375 AD separated [...]
Me Llamo Marianne Cañedo Bohr
“Did you know that Maya Indians have crooked fingers?” my grandmother asked as she massaged my oddly shaped adolescent pinky, its knuckle forever sore. “It’s true,” she said as I winced, shook my head, and tilted my head to look [...]
Authors on Pedestals: Soliciting Blurbs from Your Heroes
Ever since I was a child, I’ve put writers on pedestals, ascribing to them the status of gods. Whether it was Joan Walsh Anglund whose books my mother read to me as a child, Carolyn Keene of Nancy Drew fame [...]