Marrie Stone is a former corporate attorney. For the past two and a half years, she has co-hosted Writers on Writing, a weekly radio show that broadcasts from the University of California Irvine, 88.9FM, on Wednesday mornings at 9:00 AM. The program is dedicated to the craft and business of writing, and features live interviews with authors, poets, agents, and publishers. Marrie has interviewed well over a hundred novelists, journalists, biographers and poets, including Wally Lamb, Tobias Wolff, T.C. Boyle, Geraldine Brooks and Andrea Barrett. Archives of past shows can be found at http://writersonwriting.blogspot.com/. Her own fiction and essays have appeared in the Writers' Journal, The River Oak Review, The Laguna Beach Independent, and various online blogs. Marrie lives in Laguna Beach with her husband and daughter.

Marrie Stone is moderating the Memoirs: The Human Comedy panel during Session 2.