When Alexandra Marvar was five, growing up between a ski resort and a race track in central Ohio, she aspired to “work at McDonalds and save up all my money to buy a typewriter.” Since then, her penchant for fast food has waned, but her love for typing—and occasionally writing—has flourished.
She majored in the very employable field of anthropology from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, graduated early, and spent five months in Portland, Maine for a graduate documentary photography course at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Thereafter, she moved to Williamsburg and Greenpoint, Brooklyn where she worked as a web designer, freelance magazine writer and photographer. She has photographed and written about music and musicians, hydropower controversy in southeastern Turkey, and tsunami tourism in Indonesia.
After a month in Sumatra, in January 2009, she decided to pause her riotous Brooklyn existence and shift 100 miles north to Kingston, NY, where she spends her time making things, and devising adventures for which to travel out of Kingston, NY. She also sings in a band.
Alex's writing and photography have appeared in Time Out New York, Anthem magazine, GOOD online, vanityfair.com, NPR online, New York magazine, Jane magazine, the Village Voice, wmagazine.com.
