Michaela Foster Marsh is not just an author or musician. She is a body of work – a seer –storyteller whose creations span grief and adoption, race and love, memory and myth.
Born in Scotland and shaped by profound loss and transcontinental searching, Michaela’s art dissolves the boundaries between ritual and narrative, the personal and the archetypal. Her work is both testimony and oracle, carrying private grief into collective story.
She is the founder of the Starchild Charity, which has built a School for Creative Arts and a holistic centre for children with disabilities and autism in Uganda – legacies of love, loss, and service. She was also the last artist invited to sing privately for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Her memoir Starchild (The Story Plant, USA) recounts the extraordinary true story of finding the Ugandan family of her adopted brother Frankie – eighteen years after his death. The book is now being adapted into a feature documentary, The Starchild Covenant, directed by BAFTA Award–winner Alex McCall.
Her forthcoming novel, The Matoke Tree, transforms lived experience into fiction – a transgenerational narrative of race, adoption, and belonging, described as both unforgettable and prophetic in its beauty. Following the loss of her life partner Rony, she began writing Sunflowers at Christmas – a luminous memoir of grief and spiritual healing.
As a musician, Michaela’s songs have appeared in Dawson’s Creek, The Matthew Shepard Story, and Breaking Amish, with performances at the Cannes and Monaco film festivals.
Her current visionary project, I undid Orion’s Belt: A Mythological Rock Opera, is in development for immersive stage, fusing sound, myth, shadow, and resurrection.
Live performances in various local music venues in and around Ottawa, Toronto, New York City, Atlanta and Glasgow. Michaela has had sold out shows in Ottawa both at The National Arts Centre and Barrymore’s
Michaela has also played support to various artists over the years.
