About The Author
Author Bio
Although born in New York City, where she spent most of her life, she has lived in six states and has visited most of the others. She earned her MA in English at Northern Arizona University. In one way or another, she has been writing her entire life, whether it was imaginative stories for her friends, or advertising copy for industrial clients.
She never felt her stories were “good enough” to be published. At the persistent urging of her late husband, she finally agreed to seriously edit and revise one of them and take the plunge. Although accepted for publication, the book never made it all the way to print. However, she had the courage to pursue her dream of becoming a published author.
Years later, her persistence paid off.Her traditionally published historical novel, Promises, won the Marie M Irvine Award for Literary Excellence. Her historical fiction, A Lady Newspaperman's Dilemma won the When Words Count nationwide competition, and Independent Publishers Bronze Book Award.The Campbell Sisters, another historical novel won the CIPA EVVY Bronze Book Award She's also had short stories and creative non-fiction published in anthologies, and her non-fiction essays have appeared in various Chicken Soup for the Soul editions.
She lives in Manhattan, New York and is a member of Authors Guild, Women’s National Book Association, The Historical Novel Society, Women Fiction Writers of America, and RWA.