Besides being a composer, Marching is also a creative writer and a senior lecturer teaching Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian language) at SOAS in London. She completed her PhD at Monash University in Australia. Her book, "The Discrepancy between the Public and the Private Selves of Indonesian Women" was published by The Edwin Mellen Press (2007). She has also won several creative writing competitions in Australia and has been published in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom. She is married to Angus Nicholls, a literary scholar at Queen Mary University, London. Her novel, "Mati Bertahun yang Lalu", was published by Gramedia (Jakarta - Indonesia) in November 2010. Her book about Indonesian women "Kisah di Balik Pintu" was published by Ombak in 2011 and her book about a woman suffering from cancer, "Kubunuh di Sini", was published by Gramedia in 2013. In 2017, her book on the 1965 genocide in Indonesia entitled "The End of Silence: Accounts of the 1965 Genocide in Indonesia", was published by Amsterdam University Press.