Biographical Info
My writing has appeared in Chocolate for a
Woman’s Heart (Simon & Schuster), Our Mothers Our Selves: Writers and
Poets Celebrate Motherhood (Bergin & Garvy), Chicken Soup for the Single’s
Soul (Health Communications, Inc.), At Grandmother’s Table (Fairview
Press), CAT’S MEOW!: An Anthology of Cat Tales (Maine Rhode Publishers),
Poets & Writers, CAT FANCY, The Writing Self, Sistersong, Crazyquilt Quarterly, Emrys
Journal, la Joie: The Journal That Honors All Beings, Writing for Our Lives, Just Cats!,
Women & Earth, and The Whole Cat Journal. I have also written Houdini
(a cat novel for young adults in the tradition of Bambi and Black Beauty)and
Souleiado (a time-travel novel).
Between 1994 and 1999, I won eight Certificates of Excellence and
two Silver Muse Medallions from the Cat Writers’ Association (CWA), which I’ve
been a member of since its founding in 1993: one of the Certificates was for an excerpt
from the Houdini novel that appeared in Just Cats!, and both Muse Medallions
were for "Making a Difference....," the animal-welfare column that I write for
the same publication. And in 1996, I won The Writing Self’s Spring Contest
with "Letter to Tim," which later appeared in Chocolate for a Woman’s
Heart. My poem "Deer in the
Garden," won Burbage's Ltd. April 2000
Writing for Poetry Contest.
I have taught both fiction and non-fiction-writing through the
Writer’s Digest School and presently work with Burbage’s, Ltd., a national
company of writers. I belong not only to the CWA but also to the International
Women’s Writing Guild (IWWG).
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Education
| Trinity College, Hartford, CT. |
M.A. in English, May 1988 |
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B.A. in English, May 1983 (Graduated with Honors) |
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Phi Beta Kappa Commendation, May 1988 |
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Work
Experience
| 3/00 - Present |
Burbage's Ltd., Bowling Green, OH. On-call
Writer. |
| 7/96 - 3/99 |
The Writer's Digest School, Cincinnati, OH.
Editorial Associate, teaching non-fiction- and fiction-writing |
| 10/93 - Present |
Just Cats!, Orient, NY. Columnist,
book reviewer, and feature writer. |
| 1/91 - 7/97 |
Animal Friends of Connecticut, West Hartford, CT.
Newsletter editor and chief writer. |
| 10/91 - 12/92 |
Northeast, Hartford, CT. Writer for The
Wise Guide. |
| 8/89 - 5/94 |
Fairfield County Woman, Stamford, CT.
Feature writer. |
| 9/86 - 12/86 |
St. Joseph College, West Hartford, CT.
Visiting instructor in women's literature. |
| 11/84 - 4/85 |
Associated Press, Hartford, CT. Stringer |
| 9/83 - 2/91 |
Hartford Woman, Hartford, CT. Arts
columnist and feature writer. |
| 9/83 - 7/89 |
Trinity College, Hartford, CT. Adjunct
lecturer in English and women's studies. |
| 7/79 - 5/88 |
The Hartford Courant, Hartford, CT.
Book reviewer. Occasional feature writer and music critic. |
| 1/80 - 5/82 |
The Farmington Valley Herald, Simsbury, CT.
Town correspondent and feature writer. |
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