natasha marin

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Natasha Marin (b. 1979, Trinidad) is an award-winning writer, conceptual artist, and curator of people-centered projects that have circled the globe. For more than two decades, Marin has created transformative work across mediums: literature, performance, ritual, installation, and digital space, always centering collective imagination, engagement, and healing. She became a naturalized American citizen about 20 years ago and voted for the first time in 2008.

Natasha is the creator of the viral digital project Reparations (2016), which engaged more than a quarter of a million participants worldwide in an experiment of care, accountability, and redistribution that sparked global dialogue across major media outlets. Her more recent work includes two collections, Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Futures (McSweeney’s, 2020) and Black Powerful: Black Voices Reimagine Black Futures (McSweeney’s, 2024), which gather contemporary diasporic Black voices envisioning joy and radical possibility. Both titles include teaching guides, are widely available in print, ebook, and audiobook formats, and are taught in classrooms, libraries, and community programs including book clubs.

Marin’s practice moves fluidly between page, performance, and object. Her ongoing projects include Miko Kuro’s Midnight Tea, staged internationally (North America, Asia, and Europe), and Red Lineage, a collaborative poetry project active since 2009. Her sculptural work CLOTH MOTHER is currently held in the permanent collection of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, and she has exhibited internationally, most recently with Black Creatives Aotearoa (2023) in New Zealand.

A graduate of Spartanburg Day School (Go Griffins!) and the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts, Marin earned a B.A. in English from Tufts University (Go Jumbos!), studied Literature & Art History at University College London, and holds an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from the University of Texas at Austin (Go Longhorns!). She is currently somewhat functional in Spanish, a skill that deepens her reach across communities.

Her projects have been supported by institutions including the City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, Artist Trust, the City of Austin, Cave Canem, and the Affrilachian Poets. Media recognition includes The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Artforum, BBC, NPR, Kirkus Reviews, Bitch Magazine, NBC, ABC, Al Jazeera, Vice, PBS, and many others.

Beginning in July 2026, Marin will be available for readings, lectures, and workshops throughout South Carolina and beyond, continuing her lifelong work of making art that functions as archive, medicine, and invitation — work that insists on the possibility of freer futures.