Marlee Alcina is a multidisciplinary artist with a special focus on writing and performance. Her work explores the dreamscape, grief and love’s interconnectedness and Black lesbian identity. Her work also seeks to articulate through movement, poetry, and performance that the political is always personal. Marlee’s writing subverts the idea that the genre of poetry and lyric must function separately from that of nonfiction. She asserts that writing is at its most rich and compelling when poetry is integrated and understood as the only language that conveys certain ideas.

Marlee has an MFA in Narrative Nonfiction from the University of Georgia and she is the author of a poetry chapbook,“Mommy Issues: Love Poems for the Fragile Queer Heart.” She is a 2025 NYSCA grantee recipient. And her writing has also appeared in Black Joy Unbound: An Anthology by BLF Press, Solstice Literary Magazine, Women Studies Quarterly, and Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary & Art journal.

In addition to solo performances, Marlee Alcina has performed with Bread and Puppet Theater Company, and Sacred Circle Theater Company.