Marisa Gaines

MSU '27

Marisa Gaines is a student at Michigan State University with a major in creative advertising (focus in copywriting) and has plans to minor in creative writing. On campus, she is a staff writer and associate editor for the Michigan State University chapter of Her Campus. She currently works as a digital publishing student worker at H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences where she creates PDF layouts using Adobe InDesign and HTML layouts using Adobe Dreamweaver for three different academic journals that the company publishes year-round.

Outside of her job and education, Marisa writes under the pen name Ashley Jacobson and is a published author of her romance trilogy including books titles Break Me, Fix Me, and Love Me. She has been writing novels for over five years and is excited to continue the path of publishing with goals to publish a new series she is currently working on. Writing is one of her biggest passions, and she hopes to one day make a successful career out of it. She has aspirations to work in a publishing office as a book editor while also continuing her career as an author by publishing or having her own books published.

When Marisa isn't writing, her personal interests stay in the realm of books. She loves reading romance books and posting about them on her social media to engage with other book lovers. She has a small pomapoo named Pepper who she adores and takes care of like her child. She also enjoys organizing (and reorganizing) her bookshelf, going book shopping, hanging out with friends and family, and drinking coffee when the time calls for it (all the time).