Marcia F. Brown is the author of five collections of poetry: The Way Women Walk (winner of the Sheltering Pines Press Chapbook Competition 2005); Home to Roost ~ Paintings and Poems from Belfast, Maine with artist, Archie Barnes (Custom Museum Publishing 2008); What On Earth (Moon Pie Press 2010); When We Invented Water (Moon Pie Press 2014) and the forthcoming In the Afternoon (Moon Pie Press 2019).  She is also the author of the essay collection Well Read, Well Fed ~ A Year of Great Reads and Simple Dishes for Book Groups (Sellers Publishing 2015).  

Her poems are widely published in literary journals and anthologies, and have been read by Garrison Keillor on NPR’s Writers Almanac, and included in Keillor’s anthology Good Poems, American Places.  Her work has been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes and featured in The Norton Field Guide to Writing 4e with Readings, edited by Bullock, Goggin, Weinberg (W.W. Norton, New York, NY 2016).

A graduate of Smith College (’75) and the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program, Marcia served as Poet Laureate for the City of Portland, ME from 2013-2015, where she compiled and edited the anthology, Port City Poems ~ Contemporary Poets Celebrate Portland, Maine and launched the Words Matter Visiting Poets Series featuring nationally acclaimed poet Tony Hoagland.  Since 2011 she has co-hosted the monthly “Local Writers” reading series showcasing area poets and prose authors in her home town of Cape Elizabeth, ME where she lives with her husband.