Marygrace Waller is a writer, community organizer, photographer, and zinester originally from Menlo Park, California. She attended UCLA for her undergraduate studies where she earned a BA in European Languages and Transcultural Studies, focusing primarily on European film, music, and other media, and she also earned a minor in Music Industry. While at UCLA, she worked for the UCLA Library Special Collections and University Archive where she was a member of the UCLA Punk Collective, a group of UCLA Library employees dedicated to the preservation of Angeleno punk history. As an undergraduate, she interned with a Los Angeles entertainment industry public relations agency. She also founded a music and arts collective through which she organized weekly mutual aid and music events.

She fell in love with oral history after reading Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain’s “Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk” and Marc Spitz and Brendan Mullen’s “We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of LA Punk.” She has since conducted oral histories on several music scenes in and around Los Angeles and interviewed countless bands and photographers. She is passionate about the preservation of alternative and feminist perspectives in music and social movements and is looking forward to continuing to explore these subjects at OHMA.