Award-winning author, cultural strategist, and herbalist practitioner Aurielle Marie has been a leading developer of communally-based programs for over a decade and a half. She’s been recognized for her writing, curatorial work, and strategic political acuity through prestigious fellowships and awards, including being honored as a 2025 South Arts Prize winner and serving as the 2022 Georgia Author of the Year.

Her communal advocacy, writing, performance, and curatorial work have earned her audiences on Good Morning America, the Jennifer Hudson Show, NPR, and CNN.
A spiritual and somatic practitioner, Marie combines her fierce desire for communal healing and powerful social shifts through her work as an artist and land worker in her role as The Center’s Guiding Steward.

At The Center for Slow Relation, she combines her love of poetry, herbalism, and somatic care work with her green thumb. Catch her in the Clifton-Hamer Gardens, making medicine for protestors, or leading arts programming at the Center.