Marion Belanger has been the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a John Anson Kittredge Award, an American Scandinavian Fellowship, and Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowships. She has been an artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Arts, and Everglades National Park. Her photographs are included in many permanent collections such as the Library of Congress, the Corcoran Museum of Art, the Yale University of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the International Center of Photography. Her book of photographs Everglades: Outside and Within, with an essay by Susan Orlean, was released by the Center for American Places at Columbia College and the University of Georgia Press in 2009. She resides in Guilford, Connecticut.