Marcia Kamien

Marcia Kamien, born in 1933, first published short science fiction in the 1950s. Reference sources for speculative fiction note that her stories appeared in professional magazines of that era, including work such as And a Little Child and Holiday.

One contemporary magazine introduction described her as a copywriter at a New York advertising agency who was interested in Egyptian and Etruscan antiquities. Later bibliographic sources identify Marcia Rose as a pseudonym used by Marcia Kamien.

Under that name, she went on to write novels and other books for a broader readership. Publisher descriptions for her later work say she spent many years at a major New York City hospital, where she researched, designed, and wrote an award-winning magazine, experience that informed medical fiction including Hospital, Admissions, and Nurses.