Marcia Bradley, MFA, Sarah Lawrence College, 2017, writes fiction and creative nonfiction. Her debut novel, The Home for Wayward Girls, was published by HarperCollins Publishers in 2023.

In 2019, Marcia received a Bronx Council on the Arts/BRIO award for fiction for her story Englewood set on the South Side of Chicago near where she grew up and attended St. John Fisher and Mother McAuley High School. The story explores how mothers survive violence in their lives. Marcia credits the mentorship of Professor E. Frankel with her start to writing fiction which began while studying literature in his Antioch University class in Los Angeles. This became her MFA thesis at Sarah Lawrence where she studied with recent Pen/Faulkner finalist, the amazing author Carolyn Ferrell, and with the celebrated author, National Book Critics Circle Award and Pen/Faulkner recipient Joan Silber, who was her very generous adviser.

Marcia’s work has been published in The Chicago Review of Books, Drunk Monkeys Literature + Film, The Writing Disorder, Eclectica, Two Hawks Quarterly Magazine, in Hippocampus Magazine, and received an honorable mention from Glimmer Train. Her memoir essay about her brother was published in The Capital Gazette. Marcia has received scholarships to attend writing conferences and retreats including Community of Writers, Writers in Paradise at Eckerd College, and a residency at Ragdale in Lake Forest, Illinois.

Marcia is a member of the faculty of The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College where she teaches the art of writing novels and memoirs. She has taught in a creative writing program for New York area high school students sponsored by Sarah Lawrence College, the Yonkers School District, and the Greater New York Chapter of the Fulbright Association.

In what she refers to as her past life, Marcia worked in marketing at British Airways where she met stellar people, developed outlandish marketing initiatives with the team, and traveled to some of the farthest reaches of our wonderful earth.

Marcia is available for readings and talks about writing and second lives, book and manuscript developmental editing, teaching, and seminars. Marcia is a cancer survivor, has two incredible daughters whose love keeps her motivated, and she lives in the Bronx.