Marni Fraser is an essayist, poet, fine artist, and photographer. Rooted in ritual and craft, her work joins black grounds, leafed gold, and quiet figures with language pared to bone. She explores love, refusal, and the dignity of solitude with sensual attention and ethical clarity. Gilded portraits and iconography sit beside studies of hands, tools, and discipline; the writing keeps a liturgical cadence that refuses sentimentality—or exposes it through image. Fraser is currently completing a manuscript of 105 poems on love in its many forms while developing new gold-leaf paintings and studio photographs.

She is also at work on a set of complaint-and-blood essays about creative labor and the body—voice, refusal, and expectorating—and a small book of psychological horror stories.

Formative influences include Persian poetry—Omar Khayyam and Hafez—alongside Pablo Neruda; the Brothers Grimm; and the care of Japanese babysitters who dressed her in kimono and shared foodways and craft. An only child, she learned early to keep company with quiet.