About Marieve

A. Marieve Monnen was not born in HYLA; in truth, HYLA was born within her. Engineer by day and poetess by night, she divides her writing time between the Scriptorium at Wythe House and the gardens and cottages of Candlebridge. She makes occasional excursions to Carriage House in the City, lingering at Bevel’s Woven Goods and Paper & Quiller’s, and endlessly fascinated by the wares at Fair Winds. 

Each Leaf fall, as new students unroll their scrolls to discover the true story of Hand, Dryssa, and the founding of the Academy at Grenner Grove, she prepares for her lecture series “On HYLAn Imagery and Verse.” The middlemonth lectures are held throughout the village: the manicured Esplanade at the Goodwife Dryssa’s, the Gallery at Hand’s Inn, Leda’s Garden at the Sitting Goose, Prysor Dinsmoor Hall, and the water lily pool at the Conservatory. At the end of the last lecture on the Greensward, sons and daughters read their work to the village folk, and everyone in attendance plants the freshly turned raised beds with Springtime-flowering bulbs in fanciful patterns. 

Three times a year she journeys to the Cliffs to breathe with the waves, make a bit of salt, and remember all that transpired there. Although the courtyard is overgrown and the Gate no longer stands, Raina’s and Moira’s modest dwellings have been lovingly maintained. Seabirds still nest on Fortress heights, and the Luna-lim faithfully return..