Salut,
it’s Murielle [that’s right, it’s French], avowed juggler of words, brushes and insulin pens. I write and perform creative nonfiction, prose, poetry and other gobbledygook in English and my mother tongue German. Currently based in Berlin, long-term student and sometimes-editor.
My writing has previously been published in MORIA Magazine, C-Heads Magazine, Dissonance Magazine and FU Review among others.
I enjoy reading stories to kindergarteners and am a great admirer of children’s literature, so I am currently working on writing and illustrating a children’s book. and a novel, of course. and some more poetry.
You can also spot me at some open mic nights all over Berlin :)
“I remember that first injection, the first I had to do on my own –[…]And I, I feel like acumulus cloud –Cotton wool puff of fear, accumulated on a warm, sunny day.Cumuli usually produce no rain or snow, “but in unstable air, their bright, crisp cauliflower mounds can build upwards.”I am too young to do this forever.
I have my whole life ahead of me.
I am too young to be ill. I am too young.
I am too afraid to do this.”– from ‘cumulus’ (July 2021, Rhodora Magazine) A while ago, my pancreas bailed on me and ever since I’ve been performing the full-time job of mastering blood sugars and counting carbs. Sometimes, my faulty pancreas has a guest apperance in my writing.
To learn more about my journey with the auto-immune disease type 1 diabetes and life with chronic illness, you can read my creative non-fiction or check out other resources over here.