Nettie Marie Magnan
Nettie Marie Magnan, writer
Nettie Marie Magnan is a writer turned nurse, turned writer again. Raised on the vast and rural prairie landscape that inspires her stories, it wasn’t until years of nursing that she felt compelled to write about loss, hope, the complexities of human relationships, and the beauty and torment and strangeness of being alive. Stories with a healthy mix of melancholy and optimism are the ones she’s always been drawn to, after all. When she’s not busy working as a nurse or writing sad but optimistic tales, she can be found sketching the pretty elements of the prairie landscape, spending time with her family and cats, failing at both gardening and cooking, and as a lover of antiques, she enjoys volunteering at a local heritage museum.
“The Margaret Arguments” is an excerpt taken from Magnan’s debut novel, Dropseed: The Story of Three Sad Women, coming from Chicken House Press at the end of June, 2024.
The Margaret Arguments — Volume 8, Issue 4
In an excerpt of her upcoming debut novel, Nettie Marie Magnan invites us to listen in on a literary conversation between a mother and daughter as they discuss the merits of writing in The Margaret Arguments.
