bio

I was born and raised in Altoona, formerly one of the country’s great railroad towns, located in the Allegheny Mountains in western Pennsylvania. My teen years were spent in nearby Hollidaysburg, a tiny town surrounded by farmlands and forests interrupted by the quarries and strip mining pits from an earlier time. I attended Smith College and Stanford Law School on scholarships and practiced law for ten years and now live with my husband and three teenagers in Northern California.

Most of my free time in the last decade has been spent volunteering in advocacy and grass roots political organization for parents of children with Autism and other learning disorders. In 2007, the year I turned 50, I took a class at a local independent bookstore (Book Passage), and rediscovered the joy of poetry. Since then I’ve been taking every class and workshop that I can find, including the 2007 Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, and I recently started the low residency M.F.A. Writing Program at Warren Wilson College.

contact
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