Marisa Silver (born April 23, 1960) is an American author, screenwriter and film director.

She went on to direct three more feature films: Permanent Record (1988), with Keanu Reeves; Vital Signs (1990) with Diane Lane and Jimmy Smits; and He Said, She Said (1991), with Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth Perkins.

After making her career in Hollywood, she switched her profession and entered graduate school to become a short story writer.

For graduate school, Silver attended a low-residency program at Warren Wilson College, where she would later teach.

[8] The New York Public Library selected Silver as the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.

[10] In its "New & Noteworthy" feature, the New York Times Book Review describes The Mysteries, "Family and friendship are the central mysteries of Silver's latest novel, which is set against the tumult of the early 1970s and features a fraught bond between young girls.