Marissa Ayala Marissa Ayala

Literary Art and Multimedia Publications

Cadmium: Her figure, wild — blurred, 2025.

Errant Elements is a chapbook series featuring elements in response to the periodic table. Comprising 118 folded chapbooks, the series is designed to be combined in various ways, supporting a collective exploration of the combinatory affordances and stories of the elements. The format is a 5×5” trifold brochure that folds into a square. This allows readers to connect pieces in different ways, constructing official or imagined elements and reading across diverse entries in ways that open new imaginaries.


Lake Clark: Textile Art - Field Note on a Fractured Form, 2025.

TELEPHONE is a digital interactive multimedia exhibition that has published more than 1,395 original, interconnected works by artists from more than 930 cities in 65 countries. Interactive digital and gallery-based exhibit explores the concepts of ekphrasis and intersemiotic translation.


The Kiss of the Surrealist Mind, Cow’s Skull: Red, White, & Blue, The Arrangement, & This Girl, 2020.

Poets of Queens is a print anthology featuring poets who participated in the Poets of Queens reading series in Queens, New York.


Open for Breathing, 2019.

Established in 1990 at the University of Idaho, Fugue publishes poetry, fiction, essays, hybrid work, and visual art from established and emerging writers and artists.


Hunts Point, 2018.

Pen + Brush No. 2. Pen + Brush is a 131-year-old publicly supported not-for-profit fighting for gender equity in the arts. P+B provides a platform to showcase the work of women, non-binary, and female-identified transgender artists and writers to a broader audience with the ultimate goal of effecting real change within the marketplace


Inside/Outside: A Map of Self and Place, 2017.

A multimedia: sound, collage, writing, photography, digital installation of a handwritten postcard conversation between two writers, across New York City. Marissa Ayala and Merete Mueller explore architecture, boundaries, and the symbiosis that exists within a dynamic urban landscape. Through their writing, they map the in-between and uncharted spaces that define not only how permeable identity is, but also that cities and selves are porous. In this mapping of movement through body, thoughts, and space, our engagement with one another is fixed within an ever-changing and moving city.


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