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Marissa is an essayist and writer living in New York. She’s at work on a hybrid memoir about art and riding the New York City subway system, a künstlerroman called Tunnel Vision.
She’s an Associate Editor at Shenandoah and was formerly Nonfiction Editor at The Adroit Journal, and has previously worked with esteemed literary magazines Oxford American and Ecotone.
Her essays, poems, and stories have appeared in Barren Magazine, PANK Daily, Kissing Dynamite, Memoir Mixtapes, and Lavender Review, among others. In 2023, she was awarded a residency at the Vermont Studio Center and attended the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. She was a 2021 Humor Finalist for the Miller Audio Prize at the Missouri Review and her audio essay was featured on the magazine’s podcast.
She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from UNC Wilmington, where she earned the honor of Distinction for her academic work. She also has a BA in English from Wesleyan University.
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Marissa has also been copywriting and editing for almost a decade. Clients include Fortune 50 companies, major non-profits, and a variety of creative agencies (see: Copy).