Marziah Karch was born in 1971 in a small town in Kansas. She demonstrated a talent for painting before she learned how to speak, much to the irritation of her parents. Her parents did come to love her artwork later, after she learned not to paint on the walls.

After she graduated high school, she became a German foreign exchange student. Pieces of Berlin Wall in hand, she returned to Kansas and completed her Bachelor's in Printmaking at the University of Kansas in 1995. She has lived in Lawrence, Kansas ever since.

Marziah began exploring the use of computers in artwork during her undergraduate work in college. She continues to use both traditional and digital media in her work, including digital reproduction techniques.

As a printmaking major, she learned to value fine papers and quality, archival prints. She tries to bring those same values into the digital arena, by using longer lasting inks and higher quality papers.

Marziah's printed work has appeared in several role-playing games, including games by Event Horizon Productions, Game Designer's Workshop, Rune's Law, and Wyrd Images. She has also acted as art director for various projects. Her artwork was also used for the cover and interior of Yard Dog Press' More Stories that Won't Make Your Parents Hurl.

Marziah's artwork has also been featured in several online galleries and magazines, including Speculative Vision , artFUTURE , and Quantum Muse

Marziah's awards include Best Science Fiction at Mage Con North IV, Best of Show at Mage Con North V, and Best Use of Color at Gateway 2.

Marziah married Harold Agnew in 1994 and has a daughter, Parvaneh, 3, and a baby son Kiyan, born in December of 2004.

Among her hobbies,( which she has less and less time for with mothering duties), she enjoys going to various science fiction conventions, making gourmet iguana food, building computers from spare parts, reading voraciously, collecting DVDs, and taking online college classes.