Marsha McGregor writes essays, op ed articles and features that have appeared in a wide variety of regional and national venues. Her essays frequently appear in Cleveland Magazine. She facilitates critique circles and teaches writing workshops for the annual weeklong conference of the International Women’s Writing Guild (www.iwwg.org). Her poetry has earned regional awards and her middle-grade novel manuscript was a finalist for the Katherine Paterson Prize for YA and Children’s Writing. One of her essays will be included in YOU. An Anthology of Essays in the Second Person, forthcoming from Welcome Table Press.