Marcia L. McNair
Marcia L. McNair
Author of E-Males: A Novel
Executive Director, Long Island Girl Talk
Producer and Co-Host, Cafe Long Island Talk Show
Marcia L. McNair earned her bachelor’s degree in English from Dartmouth College and her master’s degree in Writing from New York University. McNair was an assistant editor at Essence Magazine and is currently a Professor of English, Women's Studies, and Journalism at Nassau Community College.
McNair’s creative nonfiction story, Before We Were Gangstas, won honorable mention in the National New Millennium Writers Creative Nonfiction
contest in 2003 and appears in the anthology,
Memoirs in the Light of Day (Lamberson Corona
Press, 2008). In 2006 and 2007, she received a grant from the Long Island Council for the Arts for her collaborative performance, Diary of a Mad Black Feminist, now known as Sistas on Fire! SOF has been performed at the Long Island Fringe Festival, Nassau Community College, Bronx Community College, and the Emerging New Artists New Works Theater Festival.
McNair's poem Long Island Just Isn’t Long Enough is featured in Songs of Seasoned Women (QuadraSoul, 2008), an anthology of women’s poetry, and was set to music by composer Leonard Lehrman in 2010 for a performance at Hofstra University's Suburban Conference on Diversity.
McNair has one published novel: E-Males (Aya Press, 2007). She is currently at work on her second novel.
Her professional memberships include Sigma Delta Chi (the Society of Professional Journalists), the African Latino Asian Faculty Association of Nassau Community College, and the Long Island Author’s Group. McNair grew up in New Jersey and moved to New York shortly after her college graduation. She has lived in both Harlem and Queens, but has resided in Long Island for over seventeen years. She is the single mother of two sons.