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    The Call of Otherness: Love and Poetry

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    Bodily Autonomy: A Fetus for a Fetus

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    Man of Song: Faith, An Autoethnographic Elegy for My Father

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    Autoethnographic Essay: The Unbearable Triteness of Being (Middle Class)

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Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The AutoEthnographer, Dr. Marlen Elliot Harrison is an instructor in the fields of English and Education whose autoethnographic writing has appeared in a diverse array of publications including Writing on the Edge, Reflections on English Language Teaching, The Qualitative Report, and Qualitative Research in Psychology. As a journalist, Marlen was the managing editor of the international beauty website, Fragrantica, as well as contributor to publications such as Playboy, Business Insider, The Wall Street Journal, ESL Magazine, The New York Times, Basenotes, The Language Teacher, and Men’s Health. As an academic and cultural researcher, Marlen has enjoyed contributing to projects at Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, Finland’s University of Jyväskylä, and the Japan Association for Language Teaching. Having taught and guest-lectured at leading institutions such as Doshisha University (Japan), Florida International University (USA), and University of Helsinki (Finland), Marlen is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing from Southern New Hampshire University where he also teaches in the online MA English programs. Having called Japan, UK, Malta, and Finland home, he now lives in Florida with his husband and dog. Learn more at http://marlenharrison.com.
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The AutoEthnographer is Now a Non-profit Literary & Arts Organization

Marlen Harrison·
All ContentFrom the EditorsNews, Interviews & ReviewsVolume 2, Issue 2 (2022)
·March 23, 2022·1 min read
”As of January, 2022 The AutoEthnographer Literary & Arts Magazine is recognized by the United States Internal Revenue Service as a registered nonprofit organization with the mission of becoming a trusted, open-source platform to share and educate readers about evocative personal inquiry, to support emerging authors and artists, to promote cultural diversity and appreciation, and to celebrate creative expression as a vehicle for shared understanding.”
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New Issue! The AutoEthnographer Volume 2, Issue 1, Winter 2022

Marlen Harrison·
All ContentIssuesVolume 2, Issue 1 (2022)
·March 22, 2022·1 min read
In this new issue from The AutoEthnographer, we highlight work from authors and artists in the USA, Finland, Bangladesh/Canada, Chile/USA, and India.
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Interview with poet M. Soledad Caballero, Winner of the IAANI 2022 Outstanding Book Award

M. Soledad Caballero and Marlen Harrison·
All ContentInterviewsMoreReflections on MethodVolume 2, Issue 1 (2022)
·January 13, 2022·16 min read
"I’ve already resisted that scholarship is not creative and poetry is not part of my scholarly self. I think the idea of autoethnography allows for that cultural divide between the creative and academic to be really disrupted."
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Technicolor Third Space: Why Did We Develop the AutoEthnographer?

Marlen Harrison·
All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaEducationFrom the EditorsMoreReflections on MethodVolume 2, Issue 1 (2022)
·December 31, 2021·5 min read
"In this brief, animated autoethnography, I utilize the concept of a sociocultural third space to consider why evocative autoethnography can benefit from its own literary and arts journal."
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Attend an Autoethnography and Narrative Online Conference, January 3-5, 2022

Marlen Harrison·
All ContentNews, Interviews & Reviews
·December 28, 2021·2 min read
"Throughout the first week of January, 2022, the International Association of Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry (IAANI.org) will hold their International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative (ISAN) as an online conference."
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New Issue! The AutoEthnographer Volume 1, Issue 2, Autumn 2021

Marlen Harrison·
All ContentIssuesVolume 1, Issue 2 (2021)
·December 21, 2021·2 min read
Volume 1, Issue 2, Summer 2021
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Interview with Poet Jacob Meadows, Author of Shades

Marlen Harrison and Jacob Meadows·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryInterviewsReflections on MethodVolume 1, Issue 2 (2021)
·December 13, 2021·11 min read
"It is in finding these solutions, the tape and the glue that holds us all together, that we find the beauty of who we are as people."
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The AutoEthnographer’s Shanita Mitchell Wins 2022 IAANI Award

Marlen Harrison·
All ContentNews, Interviews & ReviewsVolume 1, Issue 2 (2021)
·November 16, 2021·1 min read
"Congratulations to Shanita Mitchell, Editorial Board member of The AutoEthnographer and multimedia artist, for her recognition by the International Association of Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry (IAANI)."
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New Issue! The AutoEthnographer Volume 1, Issue 1, Summer 2021

Marlen Harrison·
All ContentIssuesVolume 1, Issue 1 (2021)
·October 15, 2021·2 min read
New Issue! Volume 1, Issue 1, Summer 2021
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Reviewing Evocative Autoethnography: What Do Editors Look for?

Odessa Ogo, Antony Kaminju, Shanita Mitchell, Jacob Meadows, Jessica Smartt Gullion, Nadine Khair, William Doan and Marlen Harrison·
All ContentEducationFrom the EditorsMoreVolume 1, Issue 2 (2021)
·October 8, 2021·6 min read
"When I review evocative autoethnography I look for that layer in the contribution that will entertain and connect to a cultural issue."
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Fragrance Cultures: The Making of a Perfume Critic, Part 1

Marlen Harrison·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysAutoethnographic WritingVolume 1, Issue 2 (2021)
·October 3, 2021·18 min read
"As fragrance, and perfume in particular, has played a major role in the shaping of my writer’s voice, and participation in cultures of fragrance has had a major impact upon my identity, it is impossible to situate myself outside of these cultures. It is because of this privilege of “insider identity” within the global fragrance community and my natural inclination towards narrative research that I turned to autoethnography."
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Interview with Crystal Sands, Author and Founder of Farmerish.net

Marlen Harrison and Crystal Sands·
All ContentInterviewsVolume 1, Issue 1 (2021)
·August 21, 2021·8 min read
"This journal is the culmination of my life’s work as a writing teacher, writer, and farmer. In the pages of this journal, you will find coverage for everything from raising chickens to jam recipes to poetry about farming and Nature."
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