Peter Marra

Peter’s writing speaks to readers interested in transgressive art, literature, and arthouse and grindhouse cinema. His work seeks to provoke and disquiet.

Originally from Gravesend Brooklyn, Peter Marra lived in the East Village, New York from 1979 to 1993 during the punk – no wave era. His work often deals with the forgotten hidden civilization usually found in urban areas – people we rarely notice – addicts, the unhoused, sex workers, etc. seen through a surrealist / dadaist / transgressive lens. He counts as his influences Tristan Tzara, Hubert Selby, Henry Miller, Edgar Allan Poe, and Jean Genet along with the original auteurs of art and grindhouse cinema such as Russ Meyer and Roger Corman.

His published works include approximate lovers, Peep-O-Rama: Sins of the Go-Go Girls , Vanished Faces, Random Crucifixions: Obsessions, Dolls and Maniac Cameras, a surreal neo-giallo novel, A Naked Kiss from a Broken Doll, A Dirty Diary of Ordinary Days.

His newest poetry / prose collection, A Dirty Diary of Ordinary Days recounting his time spent haunting Times Square and the East Village of NYC circa 1977-1990 associating with characters of questionable morals, was published by INCUNABULA MEDIA in 2025. Currently he is working on Autopsy of a Body Double, a prequel to A Dirty Diary of Ordinary Days.