Rochelle Marrett is an award-winning fiction writer and essayist from Jamaica.

Her work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Detroit Metro Times, Three Fold Press, and other publications. She has been supported by MacDowell, Yaddo, Tin House, Baldwin For The Arts, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and Sustainable Arts Foundation. She is a 2022 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow and a Kresge Foundation Gilda Awardee. Her work has been short-listed for the DISQUIET Fiction Prize and the Jesmyn Ward Prize. In 2024, she was awarded a Rona Jaffe Scholarship to attend the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

Rochelle holds an honors degree in English from The College of Wooster. She resides with her family in Metro Detroit and is working on her first novel.