Baker Artist Portfolios

Marceline is a Baltimore-based activist, poet, and multi-genre writer. A recent two-time Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee she writes about gender, place, family and dysfunction, ancestral patterns and progress, nature and the Anthropocene, food, pop culture, chronic illness, motherhood, and working-class issues. As a chronically ill single mother with a chronically ill child, many of the subjects she writes about are both personal ad universal. Her cheribun poems were long-listed and short-listed at MacQueen’s Quinterly. She has attended conferences and residencies at Tupelo Las Truchas, Aspen Words, and Event Horizon. She has also performed tarot, acted, written, and produced award-winning films. By day, she is an award-winning consumer advocate who leads statewide efforts on economic rights and equity. She writes and speaks widely on economic rights and equity, and has also written and published widely on international gender and fair trade.