About the Author

Hi, I’m Mary Puckett, a writer and graduate student in international policy management. My work focuses on culture, politics, and historical context, with particular attention to how power and narrative shape public life. I’m interested in the stories that persist at the edges where lived experience intersects with larger social and political systems.

Notes from the Margin began as a place to think slowly and write carefully about what often goes unnoticed. The essays here draw on history, personal observation, and cultural analysis to examine how meaning is constructed, repeated, and resisted over time. I’m less interested in offering conclusions than in asking better questions about authority, belonging, memory, and care.

This site isn’t a personal blog or a news outlet, but something in between. It’s a space for long-form reflection that takes both private experience and public consequence seriously. The writing here is shaped by research as much as attention, and by an interest in how ordinary lives are affected by decisions made far from them.

I live in Georgia with my husband and two children.