Personal Life
Hornbacher married Julian Daniel Beard in 1996, but they divorced after the success of Wasted. The marriage, and eventual divorce, is also discussed in Madness where she attributes the nuptial failure in part to problems with drugs and alcohol, and largely to her ill-managed bi-polar disorder.
Marya received a Master's Degree from the New College of California. Her second book, The Center of Winter, published in 2005, received excellent reviews, and her second memoir, Madness: A Bipolar Life, was published in 2008. It was met with immediate praise and hit the New York Times Bestseller list. Her fourth and fifth books, both published by Hazelden Publishers, are much different from Marya's past works but allowed her to use her knowledge and experiences with addiction and recovery to delve into the recovery community. Sane: Mental Illness, Addiction, and the 12 Steps, was published in 2010, and Waiting: A Nonbeliever's Higher Power was published in 2011. Both were finalists for the Books for Better Life Award. Also, within the past several years she has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in both non-fiction and poetry.
She has now been sober for more than ten years (since the summer of 2001, according to Madness). Her last hospitalization was in 2007, the last hospitalization described in Madness. Her marriage to Jeff Miller eventually dissolved due to reasons she said were completely unrelated to her bipolar or his depression. She was honored with a major award, the ASCAP Award for music journalism, for her profile of jazz great Oscar Peterson (published January 2005). She is also a two-time Fellow at Yale. She still publishes occasional journalistic pieces, as well as short fiction and poetry.
As of right now, Marya is working on several projects. She is currently working on a nonfiction book about sex and sexuality in literature. She is also completing a manuscript of poetry and a manuscript of essays and has a novel in the works. Along with her journalism and articles, she teaches in the graduate writing program at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Also, as of February, 2011, she is considering several schools where she plans to pursue her PhD.
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