Marilyn Lysohir

Marilyn Lysohir (born 1950) is an American ceramist.

Lysohir is a native of Sharon, Pennsylvania whose mother served in the United States Marine Corps. Beginning in high school, she worked for a chocolate factory, eventually creating sculptures out of chocolate. In 1972 she earned her bachelor's degree from Ohio Northern University, following with a Master of Fine Arts degree from Washington State University in 1979. She lives in Moscow, Idaho, where she is founder and co-owner of the company Cowgirl Chocolates; she also spent time as an adjunct instructor at the University of Washington, and has been an artist-in-residence or visiting artist at the Kohler Foundation, the Kansas City Art Institute, and Kent State University. Much of her work takes as its subject elements of her own family history. Lysohir, who is married to Ross Coates, is of partial Ukrainian descent. She and her husband are the founding editors of annual arts journal High Ground.