About
the Author
I was born and raised in Akron, Ohio and, as soon as I was old enough, headed to New York. The first night there I went to a double feature of Godard’s “Weekend” and Wiseman’s “Titicut Follies,” and my romance with the city began. For the next 30 years, I worked around, starting out in Italy assisting people like Jerome Robbins and Ellen Stewart with their contributions to the Spoleto Festival, then in New York for the Dia Art Foundation, Isamu Noguchi, Great Performances at WNET, and finally for Workman Publishing. Along the way, I returned to school to get my Masters in Creative Writing at City College. Fulfilling all requirements but unable to pass the French exam (with a dictionary!), I never received my diploma. However, the privilege of being mentored by Donald Barthelme and being appointed student editor of the literary magazine FICTION gave me far more than a diploma ever could.
My move from the Midwest brought me to Manhattan, strictly west side, always a view of the mighty Hudson. Twenty-five years later, my husband, two daughters, and I left our loft in TriBeCa and traveled 60 miles north along the banks of that same majestic river to the historic village of Cold Spring. There we bought a 100-year-old charmer that we’ve been renovating ever since. I find working with my hands both pleasurable and inspiring. The process of bringing together bits and bobs I find in the world—scraps of fabric for a quilt, flowers to weave into the garden—is the best antidote to sitting for hours at my desk. But I’ve written my whole life and intend to keep doing so for the rest of it. I have published several short pieces in print and online, one being the first chapter of Becoming Sarah.