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About Marri Champié

Three-time Dell Award recipient for Fantasy & Science Fiction, Marri Champié was Pushcart nominated for poetry in 2015, and degreed in Writing, photography & Earth Science. She won the 2013 Boise State University President's Writing Award for Fiction & poetry, & an Oregon Poetry Association Award in 2018. Marri has ridden into the the heart of the world--the Sawtooth Wilderness--multiple times, and her experiences are the foundation for her writing. Her novel “Silverhorn” released from Kasva Press in 2018. Her work has appeared in Cicada, ROAR, HOD, Blue Cubicle Press, Abyss & Apex, Outrider Press, The Tishman Review, Alcyone, Verseweavers, & other journals. She works as a freelance photo/journalist & wildfire support driver, & lives on a small ranch overlooking the Great Basin of Idaho with her horses & Jack Russell terriers, who help her with her writing.

Chapter 45. “Whitebird Must Fly” from The Weavers of Amirra

June 8, 2022 by Marri Champié

Tell me the story of a hero and I will write a song to break your heart.

Filed Under: Books, Short Stories Tagged With: fantasy, heroic fantasy, novel excerpt

Why America Did Not Become the Promised Land

May 8, 2020 by Marri Champié

“War has squandered America’s resources, potential, & greatness”

Filed Under: Essays Tagged With: education, gender bias, greatest ciountry, health care, war, women's rights

Fishing Indian Creek

February 24, 2020 by Marri Champié

… “Fishermen are superstitious of their souls”…
2018 Oregon Poetry Association spring competition,
2013 Boise State University President’s Writing Award

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Boise State University President's Writing Award 2013, death, fishing, Oregon Poetry Association, winning poem

Rediscovered Bookshop Reading September 10th, 7:00 PM

August 14, 2019 by Marri Champié

Tuesday, September 10, 2019 at 7 PM – 8:30 PM pin Rediscovered Bookshop180 N 8th St, Boise, Idaho 83702 Will discuss the idea that a Science Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal writer can follow the admonition to “write what you know” and create truth for the reader. Reading will be from “Silverhorn.”

Filed Under: Events & Readings Tagged With: Bookshop, Live events, Meet the author

On Observing A Robin

May 18, 2019 by Marri Champié

if we are to survive successfully, we must be crueler than we are inclined to be, but also retain more kindness than cruelty teaches us to practice.

Filed Under: Blog, Essays Tagged With: animals, cruelty, kindness, life & death

Frost

March 28, 2019 by Marri Champié

from “Women Who Sleep With Dogs”
“I am rings. Rings of happy and sad seasons. Thick rings, and thin. An old tree, waiting to be cut down, or struck by lightning. I am rings of history and fear.”

Filed Under: Short Stories Tagged With: death, heatbreak, time, winter, Women Who Sleep With Dogs

Savory Meatball Soup

January 28, 2019 by Marri Champié

  A delicious, sweet & savory soup with winter vegetables. The bite size meatballs are baked first to lock in the flavor.

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: Beef Soup, comfort food, Meatballs

The Attic of Memory and Dream

December 15, 2018 by Marri Champié

Sometimes I don’t recognize America. Sometimes I feel lost, as though I put my foot on the doorstep and got wooshed off on an adventure that took me too far from home…

Filed Under: Blog, Essays Tagged With: attic, culture, memorabilia, memory, throwing stuff out

The Jink

November 29, 2018 by Marri Champié

from “Memoirs of the Grey Ranger”

I came from the Wastefield-Barrio on Orous and I am Jemini Delagrassi, a girl who got misprinted on one side.

Filed Under: Short Stories Tagged With: Alcoyne Magazine, fortune telling, lucky coin, orphan, pawn shoppe, Science Fiction, space opera

In My Mother’s Steps

November 20, 2018 by Marri Champié

At my age, my children are beginning to worry about me living “way out” on a ranch.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: aging, love, mother

First Day of Fall at War Eagle Lookout

September 21, 2018 by Marri Champié

…silver ghosts of the old burned trees standing like soldiers of the remembered forest

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Fall, grandchildren, memory, mountains

The Weatherman

September 15, 2018 by Marri Champié

“I don’t watch the weather channel. I read seed catalogues…”
Published in Persimmon Tree, summer issue 2018

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: news-terrorists, Persimmon Tree, poetry, sonnet, Weather

Banana or Apricot Bread

May 25, 2018 by Marri Champié

This is an old Hawaiian recipe from the Cook Family.

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: apricot, banana, quick bread, recipe

Human Arrogance & the Source of Life

May 11, 2018 by Marri Champié

That we would accept the myth of gods and reject the likelihood of extraterrestrial visitation is simply illogical. That we would bury our heads in the fossil record, looking for the source, and not look up and consider the more likely source is simply illogical.

Filed Under: Essays Tagged With: fossil record, human knowledge, Life, religion, science, space travel

Death of an Archaeologist

April 29, 2018 by Marri Champié

sonnet from “Hard Rime.”
Honorable mention, Oregon State Poetry Society, 2018

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: archaeology, death, love, poetry, sonnet

“Into the Sawtooths” an excerpt from “A Bridge in the Wilderness”

April 4, 2018 by Marri Champié

from “The Bridge in the Wilderness”
a story told by Indy, in “Women Who Sleep With Dogs.”

Filed Under: Short Stories Tagged With: back country horse rides, beauty, courage, divorce, fear, finding, horses, mountains, Sawtooths

Black Magic Cake

March 4, 2018 by Marri Champié

The best chocolate cake you will ever make.
Blue Ribbon Winner of many County Fair bake offs.

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: Bake Off Winner, chocolate, desssert, entertaining, made from scratch

Cat’s Garden

February 1, 2018 by Marri Champié

from “Women Who Sleep With Dogs”
Loneliness seeped into each windswept, prairie day until Cat could almost finger the sadness that clogged her throat, and feel its shape, a cold desperation that was hard like stone

Filed Under: Short Stories Tagged With: Boise State University President's Writing Award, death, Fiction, ghosts, growing old, pot culture, previous lives, ROAR Magazine, Sept-May relationships, Women Who Sleep With Dogs

Excerpt from “The Earth Masters 1”

January 30, 2018 by Marri Champié

Excerpt from The Earth Masters 1:
She was standing with Ceredyn Startrekker and the Wikk of Kumari. She was almost as tall as the Traveler, and looked so much like Startrekker, Jag decided she was another Elvich moderator, or more probably, Startrekker’s daughter.

Filed Under: Short Stories Tagged With: Ancient Earth, Cosmic beginnings, Earth Masters, Science Fiction

CHICKEN SOUP

January 23, 2018 by Marri Champié

Chicken soup is my favorite and perfect for anyone who doesn’t feel well. Never buy canned soup, make it yourself.

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: best use for a pasta pot, chicken soup, Costco chicken, easy peasy, feed a cold, make it yourself

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  • Frost
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