Marcia Byalick

Present  Teacher of “The Stories of Your Life” Frick Estate Lectures, Nassau County Museum of Art

Featured speaker at Long Island Litfest

Columnist for Batterafter50.com

Frequent contributor to Newsday and Next Avenue

Author of  Whose Eyes Are These? A middle school novel about artificial insemination,  

published January 2015 by Black Rose Press

Featured in Not Your Mother’s Book… On Being a Woman and On Being a Mother

Columnist for website BetterAfter50.com Writer in residence Manhasset schools

Featured in Chicken Soup for the Friend’s Soul, Chicken Soup for the Menopause Era Awarded first place in the Opinion/News category by the L.I. Press Club

Contributor to You’re the Best! Kingfisher Press

Monthly contributor to Beinggirl.com. a Procter and Gamble website for adolescent girls

Featured In Chicken Soup for the Kid’s Soul

Author of Quit It, a YA about a how a young teenage girl handles being diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome. Random House. September, 2002

Awarded first place in the Opinion/News category by the L.I. Press Club

Freelance writer for the Long Island section of the Sunday New York Times

Co-author of The Craving Brain,  a book describing an exciting new way of thinking about and treating addiction. HarperCollins.  

Columnist and feature writer for Distinction, a 40,000-circulation monthly magazine devoted to upscale residents of Long Island’s North Shore.

Author of It’s A Matter of Trust, a YA novel of how a 16-year-old girl handles her 

father’s conviction on bribery charges.  Harcourt Brace.

Co-author of How Come I Feel So Disconnected…If This Is Such A User Friendly World?, a humorous guide to getting back to what’s most important in life —our relationships. Peterson’s Press.

Co-author of The Three Career Couple, a how-to guide for young married couples in the 90s.  Peterson’s Press.

Teacher of courses entitled The Memoirist’s Art and Creative Non-Fiction at Hofstra University and Hutton House at C.W. Post 

Editor-in-chief of The Women’s Record,  a 40,000-circulation Long Island monthly newspaper for business and professional women.

Freelance writer with articles published in New Woman, Family Circle, More,  Newsday,  Newsday Magazine, The New York Times.

HONORS

Bank Street College of Education includes Quit It on its list of best children’s books of 2003

Sixteen time winner of the Long Island Press Club Award for Best Column in a

Magazine weekly/monthly for work in The Women’s Record and Distinction.

It's A Matter of Trust chosen by the N.Y. Public Library –one of best YAs of 1996