Marsha M. Nelson

Marsha M Nelson is a playwright, screenwriter, and an award winning poet. She is the author of two poetry books, "Night Visions" and "All Rise-Stand Up Holy Gates." Her poem, "I Thought it was Love" won the Nassau County Poet Laureate Society 2016 contest. Some of her poetry has appeared in literary magazines and anthologies such as NCPLS, PPA Literary Review, Long Island Quarterly, Poet's Almanac 2016; 2017, Bard's Annual, Poets to Come (Walt Whitman's Bicentennial,) and The Long-Islander. She was nominated in 2018 for the Blue Light Press Pushcart Prize for her poem, "Hairpins and a Box of Chocolates," and was the 2019 third prize recipient in the Super Poem contest at Walt Whitman Birthplace. She has also written and directed several Resurrection Cantatas and Christmas plays. Marsha has finished her first screenplay and is in the process of finding an agent.