Molly Rosen Marriner
Oh hi! I’m Molly, and this is my writerly website.
As a writer, I’ve learned that people…don’t actually Iike to read that much. So here are some basics. For infrequent updates, I’d sign up for the free Content Queen substack.
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“Personal” writing
I’m currently working on an interactive late 1800s-style comedy website with my creative partner Jane, and trying out the genre of “autofiction.” Here’s some of my favorite stuff that you can read (cough, buy):
- The memoir Memories of Fat Camp
- The faux Revolutionary War-era woman’s magazíne Content Queene
- The dating pamphlet The Secret Languge of Birth Order
- The surprisingly bestselling Who BARTed?
- The erotic historical fiction audiobook 26 Stories About a Young Phil Jackson
- The fashion ethnography Stressed, Awkward, Envied
- Bidet reviews
- Really old satire
“Professional” writing
If you’re here to learn about my day job as a UX writer, you’re in luck(ish). I currently work on Figma’s design team, where I write for cross-product features and manage our style guide with a limp iron fist. More info on LinkedIn, but here’s a sampling of some of my favorite projects from Figma and previous employ:
- A not-horribly-received billing remodel
- A responsive and fun signup flow
- A qt community resource page
- Inclusive search and emotional health resources (Pinterest)
- A better logged-out homepage (Pinterest)
- A 10-2 “not guilty” verdict delivered in favor of BART, in less than two hours (Foreman, civil jury, Alameda County)
- Removing the vandalism “Miss Rosen is a looser” from a student’s desk (NYC Dept. of Ed.)
Another favorite Pinterest project was taxonomy that defined peoples’ fixed perma-identities vs. their fleeting current interests. Here’s some fixed vs. fleeting of me, so this website feels a tad more substantial:
Long term identity-formers
- Movies and TV where adults go back to school
- Magazines
- Basset hounds
- Tuna melts
- The mail
- The Salem Witch Trials
- The 1950s
- Baths
- The idea that I could become a docent at the Tenement Museum one day
- Let’s face it, the musical Rent
Recent interests (last updated February 15 2025)
- My scooter
- Audio-memoirs played at double speed
- Wide-leg jeans
- Bean and cheese burritos
- Posture
- “Denial Is a River” by Doechii
- The apps Duolingo and Future
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- The moment in Mad Men when Joan orders “Chinese food and delicatessen” for a party
- The fact that Edward Norton and Courtney Love were actually engaged
You’re still reading? Damn. Maybe I was about words wrong after all…
✍️ mollyjanerosen@gmail.com ✍️