About Me

At forty-five years young, I am still a work in progress.​

 

A fellow writer once described me as “a tenacious survivor of a ferocious fight of feral identities.” I proudly resemble the remark. In truth, I have a diverse resume of jobs worked, passions explored, and dreams deferred, including decades of immersive experience in the theater, music, and culinary arts. For the last twenty years I’ve been a wife, and for the last twelve years I’ve been a mother. 

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I have always been---and will always be---a writer.

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As a novelist, I can't resist writing about people falling in love, especially young people, and my books are ripe with humor, hope, and emotional heroism. My short-form style, on the other hand, is equal parts empathic, evocative, edgy, and experimental.

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My humble/honorable status quo is motherhood, writing, matrimony, and middle age. I also do yoga, walk several miles a day, and dance in my kitchen. I love cake and flowers and can make art with both. I have big goals, small expectations, thin skin, and a rapier wit. In a duel, I would choose bawdy banter at sun-up, because I’m a morning person. I grew up near the ocean, and it still pulls at me. My friendships are few, but fabulous. I really like my family.

 

I have a lot to say, and writing helps me say it.​​

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I become vastly more interesting while talking to other interesting people.

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