The BIG Read
Owens Community College Campus Read
2025-2026 The BIG Read: Marian Schembari
Marian Schembari will be on campus on April 21, 2026, to discuss her book.
Marian Schembari is the author of the memoir A Little Less Broken: How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole, but her first byline appeared at age eleven in Highlights for Kids. It was for a poem about dragons. Since then, her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and Good Housekeeping. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and daughter.
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