Marcelina Martin grew up in the South. She was blessed by having a strong connection to the land. Her matriarchal line included a grandmother who talked to plants, wrote poetry, played music by ear and healed the sick. Marcelina learned to ride horses, shoot guns and "see" the light on her grandmother's tobacco and cotton farm in the coastal plains of Georgia. When she came of age, she began writing poetry in Memory Hill Cemetery where Flannery O'Connor was buried on Marcelina's fourteenth birthday. A deep interest in art, particularly photography, led her to Atlanta to study with John McWilliams.
She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Georgia State University in 1974. Her plans for graduate school at University of New Mexico changed as the force and delight of the times led her to other explorations. After studying Buddhism at Naropa Institute in Boulder, Coloradofor a few years, Marcelina moved to San Francisco to become an alcohol and drug counsellor. From 1979 until 1991, she lived in the San Francisco Bay Area including Berkeley and Pt. Reyes in Marin County .
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