About

Name: Marta Zach

Alter Ego: Count Z

What’s in my bag: Wired headphones, Magic 8 Ball (for on-the-fly decision making; I make my most serious choices with all of my sanest lucidity, but sometimes you just gotta ask the Magic 8 Ball), an Altoids tin containing Calico Critters and bubble gum and $2 lipgloss and rose petals in a tiny jar, a Thought-Catching notebook (unlined of course; not all thoughts fit between lines or in margins), a pen (can’t recall the last time I used a pencil), a second Altoids tin with the mints actually inside, two mini perfumes, a current read, and a broken camera.

Majors: Psychology & Communication

Top 8 Books (in no particular order): Steppenwolf, Cold Mountain, The English Patient, American Psycho, Never Let Me Go, Wuthering Heights, The Secret History, Dune

Favorite Number: 8–it’s infinity, an ouroboros, a mirror

Origin Story, summarized: moved here from Poland, knew not a lick of English, read everything in sight, wrote endlessly on Wattpad starting at the ripe age of eleven, cultivated and sharpened my reading tastes and read endlessly again, had a stoic two years post-grad to think about what I want to do with the rest of my life, decided that it was reading and writing.