About

Marissa Anne Ayala is a writer, researcher, and artist in Austin, TX. Her work has appeared in the New Media and Sound Summit by COTFG, Poets of Queens Anthology, Fugue, Pen + Brush Literary Magazine, Pen + Brush Art Gallery, Tupelo Press, & more. Marissa was featured in Poets & Writers magazine. She is the founder of the East Austin Writing Project. 

She earned a BA in Writing and Literature from Naropa University and an MFA in Fiction from the New School.