About me
Writing is as natural to me as talking, perhaps more so. In fact, ever since I could talk, I preferred to write. It was often easier for me to express my feelings on paper than with spoken words. I didn’t like the way a friend treated me? She got a letter. I was desperately homesick and wanted to come home from summer camp? A letter filled with anguished words went into the next mail pickup.
Eventually, I realized that I did not have to relegate my writing to the personal and private. In college, I wrote opinion pieces for the newspaper, whenever the mood struck. Later, I continued to turn to pen and paper whenever I had the need to express myself. I enrolled in a variety of continuing education writing classes before becoming convinced that I should make writing a much more serious part of my life.
After raising my two children (are we really ever done raising our children?) I threw myself back into the academic life and received my MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, where I was extremely fortunate to study under such talents as Vivian Gornick, JoAnn Beard, Vijay Seshadri, Joyce Maynard, Jennifer Egan and Rachel Cohen. My passion for learning opened up a whole new world of both reading and writing and to the possibilities that lay ahead. Since then, I’ve enjoyed steady work from freelancing; interviewing icons like Jack LaLanne and writing about everything from seeing eye dogs to herbal aphrodisiacs.
I’ve learned a lot in my life, and one of the most important things I’ve learned is that hard work and perseverance combined with a desire to succeed, and of course, talent thrown in, make for a successful writer. I never want to stop learning, and sharing what I’ve learned with others.
