Marlon Rajan is a multimedia storyteller living in Jersey City, NJ.

They have an interdisciplinary body of work that includes bookbinding, papermaking, sculpting, graphic design, and game development. They give classes in visual arts and creative writing, as well as their intersections.

Marlon has an MFA in Fiction Writing from Columbia University.

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Ongoing Projects:

JUICEBOX: a reading series

The Jersey Rebel, Your Favorite Devilish Jersey City Newspaper

  • Otakon 2026, Featured Presenter: Japanese Stab-Binding; Japanese Stab-Binding (Advanced); Anime Figure Drawing; Exquisite Corpse: Worldbuilding with Zines

  • Jersey City Free Public Library’s Creative Arts Center: On Dreams; Intro to Bookbinding from Home; Zine Workshop; The Intentionality of Punctuation; Teen Open Studio

  • JC Print Room: The Jersey Rebel Open House; The Jersey Rebel Assembly Party; Zine Party; Zine Workshop

  • MoMA: In the Making; Introduction to Bookbinding

  • Marymount Manhattan: Handcrafting in a Post-Industrial Culture

  • Sunnyday Market: Intro to Bookbinding from Home