Marie is a world traveler, a storyteller, a teacher, an artist and a writer. She has collected stories from all over the world and written stories with people in the Zulu village in South Africa where she lived for 3 years while serving there in the Peace Corps. While there, she created a festival with the children called We Tell Stories which we presented to the local villagers.

She has participated in Renaissance Faires in Los Angeles and Ojai, California and has taught courses on fables and fairy tales in Los Angeles and Istanbul. Her main focus is on stories with a purpose and moral.

As she says “Everyone has a story to tell. Mine is just a little more…unusual.”