ABOUT MARIE
MARIE CARTER is a Scotland-born, New York City-based writer and tour guide.
Her first book, The Trapeze Diaries, based on her experiences of learning trapeze, was published by Hanging Loose Press. Her novel Holly's Hurricane was published in 2018 and was a Finalist for the 2019 Montaigne Medal. Her third nonfiction book, Mortimer and the Witches, was published by Fordham University Press in 2024.
Fascinated by New York City's macabre and little-known histories in her writing and life, she decided to further her interest by becoming a licensed tour guide, as well as a researcher and tour developer, with Boroughs of the Dead. She leads tours in Astoria, Greenwich Village, Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn Heights, and Roosevelt Island.
In 2025, she joined the team of Cats About Town Tours, NYC's first walking tour for cat lovers, and will be giving tours in Brooklyn Heights starting in April.
She has lectured on various aspects of New York City's history at such venues as Q.E.D., the New-York Historical, Salmagundi Club, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Green-Wood Cemetery, The Lambs, and for organizations that include the Victorian Society New York, Village Preservation, Morbid Anatomy, New York Adventure Club, Greater Astoria Historical Society, and many others.
Marie has been a guest on NPR, BBC Radio Lincolnshire, Lunatics Radio Hour, Conversations on Death, and others, and has been written about or featured in The New York Times, Queens Gazette, Huffington Post, QNS, and many other media outlets. She also appeared on PIX11 in October 2018 and NY1 in October 2024.
Her work has been published in NINETEENTH CENTURY, Hanging Loose, The Brooklyn Rail, Spectacle, and Yogacitynyc, among others, and in the anthologies The Best Creative Nonfiction (W. W. Norton) and Voices of Multiple Sclerosis (LaChance). She has also been awarded and attended a residency at the MacDowell Colony.
Marie is the editor of the anthologies Word Jig: New Fiction from Scotland and co-editor of Voices of the City, published by Hanging Loose Press.
Marie graduated from Edinburgh University with an MA in English Literature.
Contact Marie Here: mariewritesandedits@gmail.com