Marian van der Zon is an artist working in the genres of music, audio art, sound documentary, and writing. She teaches in the Media Studies and Women's Studies departments at Vancouver Island University (formerly Malaspina University-College) in Nanaimo BC, at the School of Culture and Communications at Royal Roads University in Victoria BC, and in private workshops.

Marian has contributed sound documentaries and audio art to sound festivals, community radio, and CBC Radio 1 for several years and has been involved in artist in residency programs such as DeepWireless 2004 and festivals such as Paved Arts and CFCR: This City is a Radio (2006) and Voices on the Edge: 5th Annual Women in New Music (2006) . She continues to focus her work on women's issues, social justice, and media production.

Marian has been published across a number of genres including journals, thesis publications, magazines (online and print), newspapers, and in books. She has an upcoming anthology coming out in March 2010, Islands of Resistance: Pirate Radio in Canada, co-edited with Andrea Langlois & Ron Sakolsky (New Star Books). Her work has been featured on the website of, "In and Out of the Studio," a project examining gender in relation to sound production and her work on micro-radio can be found in: Autonomous Media: Activating Resistance & Dissent (copyleft 2005 Cumulus Press). She runs a low powered radio station (TAR: Temporary Autonomous Radio) and is active in numerous bands, primarily Puzzleroot, playing slide guitar & banjo, banjo, and singing.