Speculative fiction writer exploring the edges of technology, ecology, resilience, and rebellion.
Nonprofit leader protecting ecosystems through civic education, policy advocacy, and litigation.
Executive Director, Whidbey Environmental Action Network
WEAN is a 38 year old enviromental nonprofit protecting ecosystems in the Salish Sea through civic education, policy advocacy, and litigation.
Novelist, The Alis Switch
Marnie's forthcoming debut novel follows characters navigating ecological collapse and ancestral inheritance, asking what we owe to the living, the lost, and the not-yet-born.
Marnie's writing asks what we owe to one another across every boundary we have drawn — between the domesticated and the wild, the living and the ancestors, the present and the future — and suggests that the answer, in every case, is love.
Family and community
Marnie shares her Whidbey Island home with my husband Tim ( Heavy Light Works), three equines (Brays Of Our Lives), three dogs, and two cats. She enjoys riding motorcycles at the track and on the road; training with her miniature donkey, Melvin, for their first pack burro race; and restoring forest and meadow habitat on her five acre farm. She has six adult children and step-children and welcomed her first grandchild in Fall 2025.
Career and education
Marnie has a BA in English and will earn an MSL in Environmental, Climate, and Energy Law in 2027. Before joining WEAN as executive director, she served as a donor organizer with Showing Up for Racial Justice; as a co-executive director at the Whidbey Institute; and as a freelance writer and consultant. She is a certified Language of Spaces facilitator and coach and an elected school board member.