Marcia Bradley, MFA, Sarah Lawrence College, 2017, writes fiction and creative nonfiction. Her debut novel, The Home for Wayward Girls, will be published by HarperCollins Publishers in April, 2023. Marcia is represented by the Cynthia Manson Literary Agency.
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. The story explores how mothers survive violence in their lives. Marcia began writing about Englewood thanks to the mentorship of Professor E. Frankel while studying literature at Antioch University 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 and Pen/Faulkner recipient Joan Silber, who was her very generous adviser.
Marcia’s work has been published in Chicago Review of Books, Drunk Monkeys Literature + Film, The Writing Disorder, Eclectica, Two Hawks Quarterly Magazine, in Hippocampus Magazine, received an honorable mention from Glimmer Train, and 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. For more than six years, she 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.
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