Marlena Williams (she/her) is the author of the essay collection Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of the Exorcist (2023). You can find her other work in The Yale Review, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, Catapult, and elsewhere. She also writes about animals for Sentient Media. Marlena is from Portland, Oregon and currently lives in New Orleans with her partner and their two dogs.

Marlena Williams

S. Trimble (she/they) teaches courses on feminist cultural studies at the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Their book, Undead Ends: Stories of Apocalypse (2017), is available from Rutgers University Press, and other writing can be found in the Bitch Media archives. They love dogs, basketball, and spooky season.

S. Trimble

Marked as a Monster: A Conversation Between Marlena Williams and S. Trimble

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

Film

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

Gender &amp; Sexuality

Marlena Williams (she/her) is the author of the essay collection Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of the Exorcist (2023). You can find her other work in The Yale Review, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, Catapult, and elsewhere. She also writes about animals for Sentient Media. Marlena is from Portland, Oregon and currently lives in New Orleans with her partner and their two dogs.

Marlena Williams

Articles

Marked as a Monster: A Conversation Between Marlena Williams and S. Trimble