Marley Rhiannon Sherwood

Marley is a writer, multimedia artist, and aspiring librarian. She’s a long-time Portland resident, but was born and raised in Wichita, KS (which is why she’s really trying to make midwestern Gothic “a thing”). She is preoccupied with the liminal and the uncanny, and draws much inspiration from folklore, religious and occult art, and medieval literature. When she’s not writing or drawing, you can find her reading voraciously, watching horror movies, or attempting ill-advised DIY projects. She copes with artist’s block by praying to the Holy Trinity (Hilma af Klint, Leonora Carrington, and Remedios Varo).Outside of her own zines, which she creates as a part of an artists' group called The Mold Collective, her writing has been published in Pathos Literary Magazine and Nowhere Girl Collective. She has a BA in English from Portland State University. She's currently working on a historical horror novel set in the tallgrass prairie of southeast Kansas.


Publications & Presentations

  • Spring 2024: "Anchoress," poem, Pathos Literary Magazine

  • Winter 2024: "The Hound and the Heron," short story, Pathos Literary Magazine

  • Feb. 2024: "Regrettably, I Can't Curl Up and Die," poem, Nowhere Girl Collective

  • Mar. 2023: "As is Her Will: Pagan Nature Worship and Female Agency in 'Aschenputtel,'" academic essay, presented at the Northwest Undergraduate Conference on Literature


Find me elsewhere

Please reach out with any inquiries via email at [email protected]