I have been teaching at Salem State College for the past fourteen years.  The teaching of writing has always been my primary teaching love and I enjoy teaching freshmen as well as seniors.  My work experience and background in literature, writing, public relations, business and politics, has taught me that to be a good writer you need to appreciate language and the enormous power it possesses.

Some of my favorite American fiction writers are: Carson McCullers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Irving and Willa Cather.

Poets I read with a good deal of regularity: Mark Doty, Sylvia Plath, Lynda Hull, and Billy Collins.

Creative non-fiction writers that are on my book shelves include: Jon Krakauer, Bill Bryson, Hunter Thompson and Jane Bronx.

I make my home in the City of Salem with my husband and our two daughters.