About Us

Born with the unfortunate expectation that life ought to have a plot and that the plot should have a happy ending, Marla has spent most of hers looking for kindness and meaning in places where it may or may not actually exist. Trained in the science of administration and the art of bureaucracy, she eventually escaped into writing, editing, and other occupations where excessive curiosity could plausibly be described as a professional asset. She is interested in obscure history, folklore, being outdoors, speculative fiction in all forms, the intersection of art, politics, and culture, and the strange and wonderful things people do for love.

Needless to say, Marla is a romantic in the old and occasionally catastrophic sense of the word. She believes beauty matters, joy is as necessary as air, and sexual chemistry remains one of the few forms of magic for which no further evidence is needed. She reads promiscuously, researches compulsively, dresses somewhat unnecessarily, and has a weakness for sprezzatura in all its forms: rumpled linen, a bespoke suit, improbable confidence, and people who appear to have arrived interesting by accident. She remains suspicious of cynicism, committed to whimsy, and stubbornly convinced that life should contain more enchantment than it generally does. This may explain Moss & Bone.