Tamsin Okonkwo
Founding editor
Tamsin shapes the studio voice and edits every long-form piece line by line before it reaches the page.
Accuracy
We get the facts right and show our sources where it matters.
About the studio
A small studio that publishes slowly.
We make one thing carefully: writing that respects your attention. Every piece is researched, edited, and set like a paper editorial, then handed to you to read at your own pace.
Why Marginalia Studio exists
We started in 2018 on a plain belief: good writing about the inner life should be easy to find and easy to trust. Most of it is neither. So we made a journal that treats reading as the point, not the bait.
Every piece is reported, edited, and set like a paper editorial. One column, a calm measure, type chosen for the long haul. The page steps back so the writing can carry its own weight.
We work from Lisbon and a handful of quiet desks elsewhere. We are not large, and we like it that way.
What we hold to
Four things we will not trade away.
Clarity
Plain language, the answer up front, and nothing padded for length.
Independence
Reader-first, never sponsored, never written to chase a trend.
Patience
We publish when a piece is ready to be read, not before.
The desk
The people behind the work.
Reuben Castellano
Research lead
Reuben tracks down primary sources, checks the claims, and keeps the accessibility reporting honest and current.
Priya Venkataraman
Reader desk
Priya reads every note that comes in, replies in her own words, and folds reader corrections back into the work.
Have a topic in mind?
Tell us what you are trying to understand. We read every note and reply in our own words.