About Me

I wear a lot of hats: editor, novelist, musician, world traveler. Above all, though, I love to write. My novel-in-progress, The Stolen Muse, is set in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Colorado. It’s about two classical musicians in different centuries, and it combines all three of my passions/obsessions.

In sixth grade, I proclaimed writing as my chosen profession, forsaking potential careers as an Egyptologist or ballerina. Luckily, as a journalist and novelist I can explore a pharaoh’s tomb without wielding a trowel, or I can watch a ballet from backstage without squeezing into a tutu.

Over the years, I’ve earned bachelor’s degrees in English and journalism and a master’s degree from the creative writing program at Syracuse University. I’m also a graduate of the Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s Book Project. In various incarnations, I’ve made money by scooping ice cream, selling department-store home furnishings, publicizing local orchestras, cleaning pools, re-enacting characters from Colorado history, and editing magazines. And writing.