Writer.  Traveler.  Adventurer. Writing fiction is the greatest adventure of all. About Me I love words and language.  Some children are drawn to music, others to art, but I was always drawn to the printed word.  There's always been a writer deep within me waiting for the opportunity to assert itself. When I first heard its whispers, it guided me into theater as a career. I earned my MA from Wake Forest University then worked all levels of jobs in community, children's and professional theaters before moving from nonprofits to corporate America.  Writing seeped into my work with such organizations as Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The National Park Service, Georgia Shakespeare Festival and Virginia Tech. Scripts gave me insights into dialogue and conflict, and the rehearsal room taught me about the rich complexities of character that fuels my fiction writing.  When I first embarked on writing a novel, it seemed like such an odyssey to undertake, a quest inherent with danger and an overwhelming potential for failure.  Little wonder that I wrote scenes for my first manuscript over a period of ten years.  I now write full time and have completed four manuscripts, which have earned me a number of awards. I grew up in Ohio on the shores of Lake Erie then headed off to live in Maine, Manhattan, Virginia, the North Carolina Outer Banks, Atlanta, Chicago, and the San Francisco Bay Area.  I now call a barrier island in Florida home, where I live with my husband and two engaging, well-traveled cats.