Marina Red

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.  She has written for a variety of online music publications, is a published writer and translator, and also runs creative living, writing, scrapbooking and ‘zine production workshops.

She has over 20 years experience of teaching, academic study, writing and bringing beauty and art into all aspects of life. As a hispanophile with an MA in European Languages and Global Cultures, she can draw upon her deep understanding of the function of language and art within the creative process and has thus developed her own technique for inspiring others to be creative in a similar way. She has also been making scrapbooks and 'zines for many years and is now sharing her creative processes through workshops and her Facebook creative living group.  In December 2022, Marina was diagnosed with ADHD.  She draws great inspiration from this lived personal experience and is committed to sharing her creative processes with others to give them the tools and coping mechanisms she has used and developed to improve her own mental health and wellbeing.

Marina likes to embrace the retro.  In a digitalised world, she finds joy in the sensory aspect of tangible media.  All her zines are available as paper copies, she loves reading real books, and has always created paper scrapbooks with good old scissors, glue, stencils and other materials found easily in stationers. 

She is an avid fan of alternative music and has an extensive record collection on vinyl, cassette and CD. She can still be found most weekends flicking through the albums at her nearest music shop, browsing for hours through old dusty bookshops and spending too much money at her local stationers.  Well, that's when she isn't dancing her fishnets off performing or attending a punk gig!