ABOUT: 

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Marina Carreira is a queer feminist Luso-American writer from the Ironbound area of Newark, NJ, a working-class, immigrant section of Brick City. Since reading  “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson” at age 12, Marina has looked to writing as a lens to the world in all its white supremacist, patriarchal, misogynist and classist glory.

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Marina graduated Montclair State University with a Bachelor of Arts in English, and holds a MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University. She is founding member of  of "Brick City Collective", a multicultural, multimedia group of Newark-based artists working for social change through literature, art, and film. 

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Marina's interests include creative writing, bad horror films, eating tacos , feminist and queer/trans activism, meme-ology, social and economic equality, and mixed media art.

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Marina has two poetry books: "Save the Bathwater" (2Get Fresh Books) and "I Sing to That Bird Knowing it Won't Sing Back" (2017, Finishing Line Press).

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Marina’s work is featured in Paterson Literary Review, The Acentos Review, The Writing Disorder, Naugatuck River Review, Writers of the Portuguese Diaspora: An Anthology, The Fem, Rock & Sling, Bluestockings Magazine, THE FEM, Paper Nautilus, Piff Magazine, Cahoodaloodaling, LUNA LUNA Magazine, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, The Harpoon Review, among others.

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She lives in Union, NJ with her partner and  two daughters.

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