It’s a toss-up which I love more: writing or traveling. I've crossed the Sahara Desert’s dunes on a camel, trotted into the Arctic Circle with a reindeer sled, floated in the Dead Sea, traversed parts of India and Thailand on an elephant, and clung to rope bridges that swung over gorges in the Amazon Rainforest—for starters. 

Writing brings the same thrills. I'm a memoirist and essayist living in New Hampshire’s Seacoast region. My essays, poems, and flash prose have been published in dozens of literary journals and anthologies—among them, the multi-award-winning anthology Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness and The Northwind Treasury anthology, with my essay winning second place in the Northwind Writing Award. 

My memoir's opening chapter was a top four finalist for the Sandra Carpenter Prize for Creative Nonfiction and longlisted for the First Pages Prize. I've been awarded writing residencies around the world, and I'm a columnist with WOW! Women on Writing that publishes a monthly newsletter sent to more than 50,000 email subscribers. I work in the technology sector and volunteer as a writing workshop leader for a nonprofit that serves people living with brain injury.