Fiction and creative nonfiction writer. Currently I work as a freelance writer for the Boston Globe. I've written book review, features, hard news stories,and every other kind of story for the Globe and other newspapers. I've been working for years on a novel about the origins of the Sacco-Vanzetti case and have a deal with a start-up publisher that's been shadowed by the illness of the publisher. I'm also working on revisions of a memoir manuscript for a small publisher that has shown interest. I have published poetry in periodicals years ago, but not lately. I write a blog on gardening, nature in the backyard, and any topics I can drag in by a creative and very loose use of garden metaphors. I'm a graduate of Yale and studied literature at Boston University for an M.A., where I was fortunate to have the wonderful poetry scholar Helen Vendler as my adviser.