Austin Robert Marshall lives in Ithaca, NY where he works as an architectural designer for local firm Chiang O'Brien Architects.
When not in the office, he enjoys being outdoors, reading, watching film, practicing photography, and playing music.
He began writing poetry recently to fulfill a desire for a more individually expressive and immediate creative outlet. He finds writing poetry to be a useful tool in balancing the more collaborative, long-form creative work of architecture.
He values the imaginative, visual, and aural aspects of poetry and its efficiency in communicating feeling, place, and idea in a thoughtful, unique, and inspiring manner.