Marcia Cebulska

Marcia Cebulska (born July 21, 1944) is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. She lives in Topeka, Kansas. Her notable literary work includes the plays Florida, and Dear John as well as her novel, Watching Men Dance. Cebulska’s writing has often reflected issues such as women’s rights, gay rights, race relations, domestic violence, and homelessness.

Biography Marcia Cebulska spent her early years living behind her parents’ bakery in a Chicago working-class Polish neighborhood called Belmont Cragin. Her family moved to the suburb of Niles, Illinois during her teen years. In 1962, she graduated from Regina Dominican High School, Wilmette, Illinois.

The first in her family to graduate from college, Cebulska attended the University of Miami in Florida, Universidad de las Americas in Mexico City, then graduated from Barnard College in 1967 at Columbia University with a degree in Philosophy. She later did graduate work at Columbia University School of the Arts in creative writing and at the Folklore Institute at Indiana University. During her Barnard years and for some time thereafter, she worked as a research assistant at Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia University, on the Homelessness Project (1966–70). Later, she was employed as an outside contractor to the New York City Department of City Planning. She also worked part-time as a gallery girl at Oscar Krasner's Krasner Gallery on Madison Avenue. In 1971, she worked for sociologist Howard M. Bahr on his study of skid row and race in Seattle. She then continued her graduate education at the Folklore Institute at Indiana University.

Cebulska is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and is a Fellow of the Center for Kansas Studies.