Marly Pierre-Louis

Marly Pierre-Louis is a creative director and writer based in Amsterdam. Her writing explores the inner worlds and survival strategies of Black women while her social practice seeks to conjure spaces of healing and radical possibility.

In 2023 Marly received her MFA from Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam an experimental space exploring the decolonized imagination and Black collectivity. She is the co-founder of Amsterdam Black Women collective — a community of diasporic Black women chasing their dreams through Europe and co/curator of the WILD; a series of pop-up bookstores and art experiences inspired by the tradition of Black fugitivity. Her poetry has been published in Versal Journals and she runs a newsletter called, The Unraveling.