Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 13, 2026
Marianne Szlyk

Marianne Szlyk

Marianne Szlyk is a professor at Montgomery College. She and her husband, the writer Ethan Goffman, live with their black cat Tyler who sometimes likes to hang out with them while they write or grade papers.

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About Marianne Szlyk

Marianne Szlyk is a professor at Montgomery College. Her poems have appeared in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Verse-Virtual, Green Elephant, Red Eft Review, and One Art. Her fiction has appeared in Mad Swirl, Impspired, and Storyteller Poetry Review. Her books Why We Never Visited the Elms, On the Other Side of the Window, and I Dream of Empathy are available from Amazon. She and her husband, the writer Ethan Goffman, live with their black cat Tyler who sometimes likes to hang out with them while they write or grade papers.

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  • Frankie's First Affair

    Marianne Szlyk is a professor at Montgomery College. She and her husband, the writer Ethan Goffman, live with their black cat Tyler who sometimes likes to hang out with them while they write or grade papers.

  • When She Was His Olive Oyl

    Sadness creeps in when one forgets the source of happiness...

  • Outside the World of Words, 2019

    Can you wake up to this for the rest of your life?