I've always written—short stories, poems, essays, and now novels. After years of writing and ghostwriting mostly for business audiences, I am now thrilled to be sharing my work with fellow fiction lovers. At Vassar, my senior thesis for my creative writing English major was a short story cycle set on Martha's Vineyard, my childhood summer home, and I planned to become a writer in some form. Then life intervened. For decades. My career required travel, cementing my love of setting. In those pre-cell phone days, I created word pictures to remember the discovery of sights, smells, textures, tastes, and sounds. Nevis captured my heart in 1996; I've visited every year since. After quitting my career in international business in New York City and becoming a year-round Vineyarder in 1999, I got serious about writing. I joined The Indian Hill Writer’s Workshop led by novelist John Hough, Jr., where The Moon Always Rising took shape. While my debut novel was in submission, I attended the Cuttyhunk Writer’s Residency to workshop my second novel, Posthumous,  and shared parts of this novel-in-progress with fabulous colleagues from all over the globe at the Yale Summer Writing Workshop.

My husband and I live a small footprint life in view of the mighty Atlantic. I write, sing, and volunteer in food equity and writerly ways. I love to cook, nurturing friends and neighbors with the bounty of our Island’s fields and waters, and subjecting them to my experiments in gluten-free baking.