Marcia Hutchinson Author

Marcia Hutchinson was born in the UK in 1962 to Windrush-generation Jamaican parents. She was the first pupil from her comprehensive school to attend Oxford, where she gained an MA in Law. She worked as a lawyer before founding the educational publishing company Primary Colours, which she ran until 2014, and was awarded an MBE in 2011 for services to cultural diversity.

After moving to Manchester in 2012, she became a community activist and was elected as a Labour Councillor in 2021. She is now a full-time writer based in Manchester and an active member of the Black Writers' Guild. She is the co-author, with Kate Griffin (writing as Lila Cain), of the historical novel The Blackbirds of St Giles (Simon & Schuster, 2025). The Mercy Step is her literary debut as a solo writer.