I’m a brand & marketing consultant, poet, astrologer, medium, and dog keeper in Portland, OR.

I study various schools of critical theory and apply those tenets to TV shows, film, and life. I’ve spent time considering Buffy, Angel, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and Deadwood through such lenses. Other topics of interest and areas of study include aesthetics of hunger, faith/divine/the numinous, intersectional feminism, attachment theory and developmental trauma, epigenetics, C-PTSD, and memory & trauma.

My poems have been shortlisted and appeared in Vinyl Poetry & Prose, g a z e, Muse/A Journal, thethepoetry, and others. Essays have appeared in DRIVE, Pacific Northwest Horticulture, American Mead Maker, and others. I co-edited Winged: New Writing on Bees.

Make art that pleases you. 

Current TV series: The Pitt, His & Hers, Landman (this is a bit of a hate-watch), Ted Lasso (rewatch)

Current podcasts: 

Current Music: Polica, Westerman, Nadia Reid, Jelani Rose, Bleach Lab

Books: The IC, Pallas Augustine. All Fours, Miranda July.

– Maryanna A.