Marcia Gaddis

Marcia Gaddis is the author of the award-winning book When God Comes Near, published in 2010. She writes a weekly column for her blog, The Olive Branch, and has been writing for three years. New in her craft, she began writing an online journal when her 26-year old daughter was diagnosed with the rare and fatal Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The journal became a book that offers hope and healing to those who choose to read a painful story.

At the 2011 Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference in Asheville, North Carolina, her first non-fiction book was awarded three distinguished awards: First Place for Inspiration, The Selah Book of the Year Award and the Director's Choice Award for 2011.

She has worked as a Home Economist for the University of Georgia and as the co-host for the gardening television show Backyard America.

She is presently working on a second book about loss and her first children's book about rural life on a farm during the 50s.

She lives in Atlanta, Georgia and serves on the board of Kindred Spirit, a non-profit program for pregnant young women in Atlanta. She is married with two adult children and and tries to write and work in her garden every day.