BOOKS
songwriter • Author • Storyteller
Michaela Foster Marsh is the author of Starchild, published in the United States by Story Plant with worldwide distribution through Simon & Schuster. Her writing moves between memoir and fiction, engaging questions of identity, race, grief, belonging, and moral responsibility, with a voice that translates naturally across literary and visual forms.
Memoir
Starchild
Starchild is a published memoir of siblinghood, multiracial adoption, grief, and belonging.
Michaela Foster Marsh and her adopted brother Frankie grew up as “twins” in Glasgow, born only weeks apart – she white, he Black – an unusual sight in 1960s Scotland. After Frankie’s death at the age of twenty-seven, Michaela’s search for his biological family led her, eighteen years later, to Uganda, and into a profound reckoning with family, identity, race, faith, and responsibility across cultures.
At once intimate and expansive, Starchild holds personal loss within a wider human and ethical frame, and has been praised for its emotional honesty, depth, and clarity of vision.
The book has been picked up for a feature documentary, with filming underway, directed by BAFTA Award–winning filmmaker Alex McCall.
Further reviews and reader responses can be found via the book’s retailer listings.
NOVEL
The Matoke Tree
The Matoke Tree is a completed work of literary fiction and is currently available for publication.
While fictional, the novel is deeply rooted in emotional truth. It explores race, identity, secrecy, transgenerational silence, and the enduring human search for connection. The writing of The Matoke Tree led Michaela to Uganda, where she found the biological family of her adopted brother eighteen years after his death – a journey that later formed the foundation of Starchild.
Although differing in form, The Matoke Tree and Starchild are intimately linked. One approaches these themes through fiction, the other through memoir; each illuminates the other.
A private literary pitch page, including full synopsis and sample chapters, is available on request.
The complete manuscript is available for consideration by publishers and agents.
MEMOIR
Sunflowers at ChristmaS
Sunflowers at Christmas is a completed memoir focused on grief, survival, and love after loss.
Written with raw intimacy, the book examines mourning not as a single event, but as a lifelong, evolving relationship, and reflects on how meaning and tenderness persist in the aftermath of profound loss.
The manuscript is complete and available to publishers and agents.
Songs, stories and spaces where grief, grace, and everyday life are allowed to sit together without needing to be resolved.
© 2026 Michaela Foster Marsh