Marianne Choquet, a graduate of the University of Iowa, holds an M.A. in English Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of Barcelona and a Certificat de Langue Française from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. She speaks English, French, and Spanish, and has worked as a writer for Dino De Laurentiis Films, The Yomiuri Shimbun, and Metro magazine in Chicago, on the staff of The Iowa Review, and as a reader for The Barcelona Review. In addition to undergraduate writing workshops at The University of Iowa, she has participated in three nationally renowned U.S. writing programs: the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference in California, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Vermont. She has also assisted and participated in A Creativity Workshop in Barcelona and Paris. Her novel manuscript, Lucy, Go See, constitutes the creative component of the PhD dissertation she is preparing through the doctorate program, Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities, at the University of Barcelona. In May 2007, and June 2009, she was awarded an International Mobility Scholarship by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture; in October 2008, with a grant from the Center for Women and Literature at the University of Barcelona, she was a Visiting Scholar at the prestigious International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Marianne has lived and worked in the United States, Italy, France, Spain, Japan, Hong Kong, Austria, and Switzerland; and she has traveled extensively throughout the world. As model and actress, she appears in international advertisements, commercials, television series, theater, and films. In April 2009, she created, directed, and taught a pilot writing workshop - Creating Writing: On Being Foreign - to University of California-Illinois Education Abroad Program students at the University of Barcelona. She is currently teaching it as a semester-long academic course at the CIEE Barcelona Study Center.