About Me

Hi! My name is Marisa Firlight and I’m an aspiring author who is drawn to the darker side of stories.

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised considering I was raised on a diet of 80s dark fantasies. The VHS tapes’ ribbons for films like the Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, Willow, Krull and Return to Oz were worn thin in my household.

I was born and raised in Australia, but have spent the last close to 20 years in Italy. I live in a sleepy village in the foothills of the Alps with my husband, our two wildthings and a deaf, geriatric English Cocker Spaniel. Discounting infancy, I’ve spent as long living in each of these two cultures and it’s often their intersection, when I reach a crossroads or point of difference between them, that my imagination is set alight and a new story idea is born.

I’m currently querying a dark, gender flipped Peter Pan reimagining while I revise an urban contemporary YA tooth fairy heist story. I’ve also set myself the challenge to write a short story (almost) every week this year. You can read more about my stories (both novel length and short) over on the My Writing Page.