Marshall Highet

Reading a good book is like having an escape hatch in the back of your mind. I’ve always thought books are magical, ever since I came across my first Oz book. Even though I don’t still think that my super powers will finally blossom into fruition someday or if I stare hard enough I will see the fairy in the firefly, I do still believe in the magic in-between the pages.

Despite all that adult rationality and responsibility, I believe that books are enchanted objects—printed pages that become transparent windows into other worlds, words that give us wings. I first found books when I most needed them, and they’ve never let me down. Those are the kind of books that I love to write.

MY BIO

MARSHALL HIGHET is a professor and writer. Spare Parts—her YA sci-fi novel—was published in 2014 and has an educational bent, with science as its foundation. Hold Fast, written with Bird Jones, is a swashbuckling adventure with historical facts holding it up. Blue-Eyed Slave came out in 2022, and The Washashore in 2025. Currently living in Baltimore, Marshall’s newest venture is brewing her own kombucha.