Marshall James Kavanaugh is a dream laborer of words and various art forms used to create poetic dream spaces for his readership to explore. His works contain both the surreal and the absurd in a culture driven attempt at documenting the creative activism of his generation. Originally from Philadelphia, for several years he has been on the road traveling coast to coast performing spoken word. Most recently in 2017-2019, he co-organized a series of readings across the country with a variety of performers under the moniker, Poets For Peace. He has published two collections of short stories, several small chapbooks of travel fiction, and a collection of haikus with the small press, A Freedom Books.

He has performed and had his work exhibited in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Currents New Media Festival, MoMA PS1, The Paseo Taos Arts Festival, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Space 1026, and Vox Populi, as well as other cultural spaces around the country. He is the resident writer of The Dream Oven art salon since 2011 and was an active member of the Philadelphia art collective/gallery, Little Berlin, from 2012-2014. In 2017, he began curating at the Taos, NM collective and new media gallery, Parse Seco.

He currently divides his time between travel and writing a novel about the first trip he took out to the West Coast. ​When he is not on the road he usually can be found in the Philadelphia area with his two cats building large TV installations.