Marianne Bevan
Marianne Bevan is a public servant and writer from New Zealand now living in New York City. Her work has been published in the New Zealand journals Landfall and Headland but mostly appears in government reports.
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Ghosts of the Small Rooms
To be a government researcher in a prison is to straddle two different roles. The women I talked to understood that I worked for the institution that incarcerated them. In this way I was just like the corrections officers who locked them in each night. But I was different too.
April 2026
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