ABOUT
OFFICIAL BIO
I grew up in a small town on the Susquehanna River in the anthracite coal-mining region of northeastern Pennsylvania. I have been a scribbler since elementary school; in fifth grade, my essay “Our Friend the Moon” won second place in the Junior Project Competition sponsored by the Educational ABCs of Industry in Niagara Falls, NY.
Words have followed me around ever since. From the high school literary magazine to poetry at Oberlin College and, later, at Cornell University, where I tried my hand at short stories in the freshman seminar I was required to take even though I was a 24-year old junior with a three-year old son. From there, it was short leap to graduate school at SUNY/Binghamton where I received my M.A. in English/Creative Writing in 1994.
I spent twenty years in Ithaca, New York, working and raising a son, before moving to western Oregon in 1998 with my husband and cats. In 2007, after nine years of living and writing among the tall trees in a house on thirteen acres in the foothills of the Coast Range, the Concordia neighborhood in the city of Portland, Oregon became our new home.
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