Brief artist bio:
I have been writing all my life; for the past 30 or so years from the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York. I grew up on Long Island, but now live in a small rural village outside of Rochester. I have taught as an Adjunct professor of writing and literature in various colleges and universities. My work tends to be personal, while it probes archetypal concerns of the heart, nature, and the creative process. My poems tell stories of the people and places I know in densely imagistic language reflecting lake country and small village life. I am also a folk musician and have traveled to Ireland and other countries to learn and perform music; some of my landscape and subject matter strays there. I have a Ph.D. in Creative writing from SUNY Binghamton. Ruth Stone was my mentor, and she invited me to study there on a scholarship. I received a grant last year from The New Yok State Council on the Arts to complete my manuscript in process, Driving the Dark. I have a small handful of publications and awards. My poetry reflects the life of a woman who has lived many roles—mother, grandmother, lover, teacher, traveler, musician, and who endeavors to embrace the moments given and taken in a marriage of words and spirit—straw into fool’s gold that one can always hope might ring true and universal, at least in small ephemeral glints.