I began writing after taking a "Creative Writing" course in the 90's. I settled on poetry because I thought I could develop a knack for it, and it took less time. I've been influenced by all my teachers...Tina Daub, Eamon Grennon, Reuben Jackson, Rose Solari..... I have a doctorate in social psychology and have taken on the task to provide imagery which reflects an emotional state. Although much of my earlier work is confessional and autobiographical, my later work is imagistic, about nature. I have chosen to write after the style of Pablo Neruda, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Marianne Moore and Emily Dickenson at various times, but prefer to use my own voice for the most part.  I have written a great deal in form since 2008. 

I have been published in over 50 literary magazines, including WordWrights, a now defunct D.C. based literary magazine through which my three chapbooks have been published.

I have an publication in the "Great American Poetry Show" out of West Hollywood of "Regale Us." In addition, I have 6 poems inthe last three issues of the Federal Poet, and will be published in the forthcoming Gunpowder Review. California Quarterly will publish two poems in 201l. I have two poems in the Maryland Writer's Association anthology "Life in Me Like Grass on Fire." Tall Tales will publish my Narrative Poem, Sailing to Greek Islands and Broadkill Review just published three poems: Water Worship, I Remember Cheese and Sherry, and Rickards Lake.

Editor
I was a Senior editor of WordWrights magazine,have done a number of readings in the area, am a frequent attendee at the Writer's Center, and have taught poetry to elementary school children. In 2006, I received the Jenny McKeen Moore Fellowship at GW. From 2008-2010, I completed a Mastes in Writing at Johns Hopkins. In 2011, I self published two books of poems by Maryvale Elementary School children in 2011.