I grew up playing in the fields and streams of Pennsylvania. In my twenties, I moved to southern Vermont, taught school, kept chickens, and raised two spirited daughters on a dirt road in a forested town. Now I live among oak and evergreens on the rocky coast of Maine. Place is the foundation of home for me, the ponds and streams, the harbors and salt rivers, the woods and the sea. Home is about the people, too, people who conjure the character of a place. 

My passion for the creative life began in early childhood when I first reveled in imagination and found a landing place in the written word. Story, then, became a calling. When writing stories, I'm entranced by how the interior lives of fictional characters play out against the backdrop of a moody landscape in rural communities like the ones where I've lived. In my work with writers, I become curious about their stories, the passions, and the edges.

We are all hard-wired to tell stories, to say to one another, this is where I’ve been, what I’ve seen, and this who I met along the way. We say, this is how I felt. By telling stories, we wonder if others have ever felt this way, too?