In 1963 she joined the Peace Corps, serving two years in Guayaquil, Ecuador. She worked for WBAI as Programming Director, but resigned in 1977, over staff cuts.^[1] She lives in New York City, with her husband Fritz Mueller.

• Maria Thomas Award for Outstanding Fiction, for Green Fires^[2]
• 1995 American Book Award, for Green Fires

• Green fires: assault on Eden : a novel of the Ecuadorian rainforest. Curbstone Press. 1994. ISBN 978-1-880684-16-0.
• The Climate of the Country. Curbstone Press. 1999. ISBN 978-1-880684-58-0.
• My Mother's Island. Curbstone Press. 2002. ISBN 978-1-880684-82-5.

Anthologies edit

• John Coyne, ed. (1999). Living on the edge: fiction by Peace Corps writers. Curbstone Press. ISBN 978-1-880684-57-3.
• Erica Harth, ed. (2003). "A Daughter's Need to Know". Last witnesses: reflections on the wartime internment of Japanese Americans. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-6230-0.

Criticism edit

• "Review: Selected Accidents, Pointless Anecdotes", Peace Corps Writers

• "Author's website"
• "An interview with Marnie Mueller About MY MOTHER'S ISLAND", Curbstone, Jane Blanshard