Marilynn Richtarik

Marilynn Richtarik is an American professor of English at Georgia State University who teaches English literature and specialises in 20th-century literature from Northern Ireland. She is the biographer of Belfast playwright Stewart Parker.

Richtarick was raised in Lawrence, Kansas

In 2017, as a Fulbright Scholar, she researched and taught at Queen's University Belfast.

Publications Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 274 pp.

Stewart Parker: A Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 448 pp.

As editor Parker, Stewart. Hopdance: An Autobiographical Novel, Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2017, 176 pp.

Personal life Richtarik married journalist Matt Bolch in 2001. They have a son together.