Meet Marzetta
Kaitlyn Marzetta McClung
Kaitlyn Marzetta McClung is an Austin-based multidisciplinary artist, musician, and literary scholar. Rooted in Black Southern queerness and womanhood, Marzetta’s work bridges creativity and academia. Marzetta was named a 2024 emerging artist by the Utah Literary Arts Festival.
A published poet and essayist, Marzetta has performed at the NYC Poetry Festival, Deep Vellum Books in Dallas, and bookstores across the United States. Her debut book, The Garden: Poems, is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Publications & Literary Affiliations
The Garden: Poems 2nd Edition | Marzetta’s House Publishing, 2025
The Garden: Poems| Marzetta’s House Publishing, 2022
The Black Queer Literary Imagination| The University of Alabama, 2022
Audio Reader, Passengers Journal| Sept 2021-Present
The Bones Stay Audiobook Reader, Passengers Press| 2022
“Artivism and the Sacrifice of the Black Child in LeRoi Jones’ “The Baptism” and “The Toilet”” |The College Language Association Convention, 2023
Assistant Editor: fiction, non-fiction, & poetry, Black Warrior Review| Jan 2021-2022
Society of Early Americanist, Presenter & Panelist| 2021
Hudson Strode Graduate Conference, Presenter |2021]
Education
The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (2020-2022)
M.A. English; Technical Writing, Research Fellowship 3.98 GPA
Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL
B.A. English,Communications for Stage & Media Minor 3.96 GPA