marina red
Stoke-on-Trent
Stephanie Burgess aka ‘Marina Red’ is an established zine creator and writer
from Cheshire. She is one of the original riot grrrls, having played in punk
bands throughout the 90’s. She runs her own fanzine and blog
riotgrrrlzine.co.uk, which forms part of her postgraduate research into the
Spanish alternative music scene, but also covers Riot Grrrl and punk bands from
throughout Europe. She is an old skool paper ‘zine creator, who crafts her
‘zines by hand using collage and a mixed-media approach, creating unique pages
and art which are highly representative of punk zine culture and influenced by
the Washington Hard-Core Riot Grrrl Scene of the early 1990s. In particular,
Kathleen Hanna’s Riot Grrrl Manifesto, which was first published in a ‘zine in
1992. She has written for a variety of online music publications, is a published
writer and translator, and also runs creative writing and ‘zine production
masterclasses. Currently working towards her PhD “In Search of Spain’s Riot
Grrrls” for Manchester University, she has over 20 years experience of both
academic study of the writers and musicians of the last century. As a
hispanophile with an MA in European Languages and Global Cultures, she can draw
upon her deep understanding of the function of language within the creative
process and has thus developed her own technique for inspiring others to be
creative in a similar way.She is an avid fan of alternative music and has an
extensive record collection dominated by female musicians. She can still be
found most weekends flicking through the vinyls and CD’s at her nearest music
shop or dancing her fishnets off at a punk gig!
