Marcia L. McNair is an Associate Professor of English at Nassau Community College. She teaches African American Literature, Journalism, and Women and Gender Studies. Formerly an assistant editor at Essence Magazine, McNair has numerous credits as a journalist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and essayist.

She founded the nonprofit organization Long Island Girl Talk to encourage girls of color to enter the field of television and film. She was co-host, writer and producer of Café Long Island, a multicultural news program, which aired on Public Access.

Her essay, The Incident Revisited, excerpted in the play she co-authored, Sistas On Fire! A Newsical, appears in the anthology Black Lives Have Always Mattered. Sistas On Fire! A Newsical was produced Off-Off Broadway by the East Village Playhouse in for its spring 2019 season.

McNair has received recognition for three screenplays: Ghettocyrano, The Open Window, and The Dark Child.

Her professional memberships include Sigma Delta Chi (the Society of Professional Journalists), New York Women in Television and Film, and the American Association of University Women.

The mother of two sons, McNair grew up in New Jersey and moved to New York shortly after her college graduation. She has lived in both Harlem and Queens but has resided on Long Island for over twenty years.