Largely self-taught on cello and upright bass before studying music at the University of North Texas in Denton, Verrill became a key component across a number of indie bands in Austin as well as a founding member of the Austin-based Annie Street Arts Collective.

[1] She has performed with Ethan Azarian, Califone,[2] Dana Falconberry,[3] Patty Griffin,[4] Thor Harris,[5] Will Johnson,[6] Longriver, Possessed by Paul James, some say Leland,[7] Charlie Sexton,[8] the Weird Weeds,[9] and Ralph White.

[10] In 2015, she began performing her own material seriously as part of the experimental folk duo Little Mazarn with Jeff Johnson featuring unusual instrumentation of banjo and musical saw.

[12] Both Verrill and Johnston had been playing bass in bands, most notably with Austin musicians Dana Falconberry Lil’ Cap’n Travis, Bill Callahan and others.

[14] In 2019, Little Mazarn followed up their 2017 self titled EP with their first full length album, Io, a work of folk minimalism including a melancholy reinterpretation of Dancing in the Dark by Bruce Springsteen.