Jasmine Marshall graduated from Wake Forest University in 2024 with a B.A. in psychology and minors in music and creative writing. She has composed for piano, strings, and voice, to name a few, and has self-released several music albums with more on the way. She has also written a collection of poems, yet to be published as a whole. Her poem “Portals” won the 2024 Academy of American Poets/Edwin G. Wilson Prize, and her work has also been published on Mad in America. 

As a “mad” person herself, she is passionate about Mad Pride, the psychiatric survivor movement, psychiatric abolition, and more humane approaches to human difference and suffering. Drawing on her own lived experiences with trauma and being labeled "mentally ill," she is certified as a Peer Support Specialist in the state of North Carolina, and aims to practice trauma-informed, non-carceral, autonomy-affirming carework for humans experiencing distress. 

In her spare time, she enjoys listening to music, reading, and cuddling with her dog Sophie.