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.
