Maro is a painter, poet, writer, and film photographer whose work is shaped by movement, landscape, and an ongoing commitment to healing. Writing is her longest-standing medium and the foundation of her creative practice. She does not write to be a writer; she writes to survive it.

She currently lives a nomadic van life across the American Southwest with her four dogs. Since September, she has traveled through fourteen states, allowing motion, solitude, and place to inform both her inner life and the work itself.

Her visual work is liminal and atmospheric, created primarily with inks and metallics to produce surfaces that feel charged—more like echoes than images, more like residual light than fixed objects. Instability is not something the work attempts to resolve, but a material it actively engages. Maro is interested in how luminescence can coexist with grit, and in what lingers after an experience passes through.

Much of her work is made outdoors, often on picnic tables in national forests, desert pull-offs, and temporary resting places along the road. Process is central to the work. Disturbance is welcomed. Her hands are frequently stained with ink.

Maro is currently developing several bodies of work. The Amethyst Series, created in Santa Fe, is slow, meditative, and deeply process-based, made with alcohol inks, metallics, and pigments derived from amethyst stone. The desert—brutal, indifferent, and softly pastel—plays an active role in this work. The land does not offer reassurance, and the work listens anyway.

Alongside this, she is developing Modern Nights / Ancient Days, a series shaped by night driving, desert stillness, and the tension between modern survival and ancient remembering. This work exists between eras, holding technology and ritual, exhaustion and devotion, without asking them to resolve.

She is also working on Mood Ring, an ongoing 100-day series of aura photographs documenting subtle energetic shifts as life moves from freefall toward steadier ground. The project functions as both documentation and ritual, a practice of noticing and attunement rather than self-definition.

Maro’s spiritual life is quiet, messy, and improvised, shaped by meditation in the van, sound baths while driving, intuitive ritual, and 12-step recovery. The lessons are hard-earned. Growth and stability are held in constant negotiation.

Her poetry collection, Don’t Flinch, is forthcoming in 2026.

She believes in attention, slowness, and staying long enough to notice what remains.