MARCIA K. MATTHEWS is a Gemini born in Boston in the year of the Buffalo. She majored in English at the University of New Hampshire, and graduated cum laude in 1974. Her poems have appeared in Hawa...view moreMARCIA K. MATTHEWS is a Gemini born in Boston in the year of the Buffalo. She majored in English at the University of New Hampshire, and graduated cum laude in 1974. Her poems have appeared in Hawaii Review; Sojourner; and A Wise Woman's Garden; journalism in The Belmont Citizen-Herald; The TAB; Equal Times; and Newburyport Daily News. Her pamphlet Pornography-License to Kill (New England Free Press, 1978) was anthologized in Fight Back (Cleis Press, Minneapolis, 1983).
Her novels include:
Morgan's Way: Henry Morgan holds 17th Century Jamaica for England.
The Liberty Boys: Maid Dacey Flynn joins the patriots of Savannah and ships aboard with Oliver Bowen.
Boss of the Bayou: Jean Lafitte and his pirates help win the War of 1812.
Prides Crossing: Mary Brandegee rivals art collectors Gardner and Frick in Edwardian New England.
Gegenspion/Counterspy: A German prince helps the Allies as a code-breaker in WW II.
Currently facilitating a creative writing group at the Woonsocket, Rhode Island Library, she honed her speaking skills at Toastmasters International.view less