Before working 20 years as a licensed psychologist and therapist in private practice in Fort Worth,Texas, Marilyn was on the staff of the Fort Worth Child Study Center and Associate Director of the Center for Behavioral Studied UNT (NTSU). During her time as a private practitioner she wrote a self-help book, "Getting Yourself Together" an edition of which was introduced at the Chicago Book Expo by cdBooks. A second book "Morals and Manners for the Millennium" was presented at the Austin, Texas Book Fair. Marilyn is a published short story writer and poet. She was a finalist in A.C. Green's Living Room Theatre of Salado, and her Eakin Press book "Paisano-Pete: Snake-killer Bird" won best juvenile book in Oklahoma Writer's Federation. Marilyn is a member of Fort Worth Writers, Fort Worth Poetry Society, Fort Worth Song Writers and Who's Who of American Women and Who's Who in America. Her short story "Barney's Sweet Revenge" was a recent finalist in StoneThread.com ebook anthology.