Marcy O’Brien began writing as she approached her dotage. It became Career #7.
A Massachusetts native, she went from Boston University to many years at American Airlines. She taught for four years in the business curriculum at Alfred State College in upstate New York, and spent a few decades in designer fashion, interior design, and small business ownership. It is yet to be determined whether these varied endeavors are the result of a low threshold of boredom or the next step up from inquisitive: downright nosy. Probably both.
After qualifying for Medicare, she assumed one last challenge as Executive Director of a busy historic theatre in her adopted home town. She stayed eleven years, shepherding the theater to the prestigious National Historic Theatre of the Year award.
Writing locally for twenty years, Marcy’s humor and human-interest column appears weekly in three regional newspapers in Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania. She has written feature articles for the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, The Washington Post, Pittsburgh Post, Yankee Magazine, Shipmate Magazine, the Chautauquan, and many others. She has won two Human Interest awards from the Erma Bombeck biennial writing competition and is a member of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.
Marcy lives in Warren, Pennsylvania, sharing her husband, Dear Richard, with their psychotic Maine Coon cat, Finian. She has two adult children who live in places she likes to visit and two absolutely perfect grandchildren.
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Awards 2006 Erma Bombeck Writing Competition – Honorable Mention |
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