I was the editor of two alt-weeklies in Connecticut, and managing editor of an alt-weekly and business journal in California during a journalism career of twenty-seven years. I was also local editor for the Connecticut Zagat, and wrote extensively about food for many magazines. My travels and living abroad gave inspired a lot of my stories. A year in Baghdad during the Iran-Iraq War inspired a novel. And a decade of yearly visits to Guatemala studying memoir with Joyce Maynard also inspired an historical fiction. Home is South Salem,NY, where I live with my husband and a darling standard poodle.