Bio

Miriam Marston is a speaker and songwriter based in Portland, OR. She started composing at the age of ten, and called one of her first songs "Nostalgia." To this day, she can't remember what her ten-year old self could have been so nostalgic about. She released her first album Shades of an Eternal in 2000, while a freshman at the College of William and Mary. In the years that followed, she kept up the writing, as she moved from Virginia to England to Boston to Oregon, even if it meant writing something on a mostly-broken piano in the basement of a university she wasn't enrolled in. In 2010, she released her second album, The Luggage of an Optimist, a collection of songs born out of the in-between moments of traveling through airports and train stations.

She has performed in a wide variety of venues, ranging from singing original songs in coffee houses (with a few people) to performing the National Anthem in a stadium (with 20,000 people). In 2004, she received an honorary award in "The Great American Song Contest" for her song "When I'm Wiser." She's been a featured artist on a number of radio stations, including Archangel Radio, Mater Dei Radio, Ave Maria Radio, and WQOM Boston. 

In addition to the song-writing, Miriam published her first book What I Learned in Oxford, in January, 2015. Her second book, The Memory of Good was released in the fall of 2015. She is a contributing author to the 2019 OSV release, Road Signs for Catholic Teens.

A member of the Archdiocesan Speakers Bureau, she offers workshops and presentations on a variety of topics pertaining to Christian life and culture. 

In her 9-5 life, Miriam serves as the director of faith formation at a parish in the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon. She also hosts a weekly show on Mater Dei Radio, called Blazing the Trail.

Miriam is a consecrated virgin of the Archdiocese of Portland. When she's not writing or speaking, you'll most likely find her hanging out with family and friends, attempting a jog, watching a Marvel movie or enjoying a soccer match.