Author: Marcy O'Brien

Marcy O’Brien was dragged kicking and screaming to Warren, Pennsylvania, a small town on the edge of the 500,000-acre Allegheny National Forest. She had already moved 13 times. When they arrived, she declared to her husband with the new job, “I can do a sentence of two to four here. That’s it.” That was 45 happy years ago. Writing locally for twenty years, her humor and human-interest column is carried in three regional newspapers in Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania. She has written for 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 at the Erma Bombeck biannual writing competition. Her first book, Rounding Third…, is due out in December. Marcy, a Massachusetts native, went from Boston University to many years at American Airlines, beginning as a stewardess. She moved to field supervision then corporate staff, working in New York, Los Angeles, and Boston. She taught four years in the business curriculum at Alfred State College, and spent a few decades in designer fashion, interior design, and small business ownership. A year after qualifying for Medicare and losing her husband, 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. She still lives in Warren with her last husband and their psychotic Maine Coon cat. She has two adult children who live in places she likes to visit and two absolutely perfect grandchildren.