Marcia was born in September of 1955, the eldest of four children. In the following years, she found herself a constant source of entertainment to her two younger sisters and brother with her writing. In high school, two English teachers discovered her talent and nurtured it. With their encouragement, Marcia knew that her writing could go much further than entertaining siblings. One of the teachers told her that she had the ability to turn words into pictures in the reader’s mind and that this was no easy feat, that it was a God given talent. Although Marcia never forgot her teacher’s words, writing took a back seat to marriage and two children, Stephanie and Stephen. Between ice-skating lessons and little league games, there was only time for a paragraph now and then – paragraphs that over the years turned into hundreds of pages that have now been assembled into her next book, Both Sides Now. After a divorce and many years as a single parent, Marcia remarried and thought her life was better than ever. But - seven months after the wedding, she lost her son to a car accident.