Marnie Ellen Hertzler

Marnie Ellen Hertzler was born in Virginia ,went to high school in Richmond, and has lived in New Orleans and Baltimore.She credits the animations she made as a little girl using Power Point on the computer that belonged to her father as a turning point in her creativity,though she was also inspired by her jobs in New Orleans as a sculptor, doing temp office work paging through supply catalogs, and being a care coordinator in a psychiatrist's office, where she helped patients connect with outside mental health resources, a job that allowed her more contact with other human beings.