About

I can still remember when…

… I was a little girl, sitting on my daddy’s lap in our wicker rocking chair, listening to him read The Monster at the End of This Book, and somehow magically doing Grover’s voice all the way through.

Now, I don’t know if that’s at the root of why I became obsessed with books. My dad also indoctrinated me at a young age with a love of poetry and we’ve both gone through many frayed editions of Oscar Williams’s Immortal Poems of the English Language.  It was perfectly normal to hear me quoting Keats, Auden, Houseman, Dickinson, and Shakespeare at high school and college parties.

By junior high I had already been an editor for the annual literary magazine and contributed to the parents’ newspaper at my school. In high school, I joined the literary journal and the school newspaper. Sure, I played sports and did a lot of theatre, but, unsurprisingly, my favorite classes were my electives and independent study in creative writing.

Was it any wonder I became an English major and joined the college paper? I interned and later worked for the Connections Newspapers in the Washington, DC metro area, moved back up north to work at John Wiley & Sons and go to graduate school at NYU, where I earned a Masters in Publishing. I went on to work at a literary agency for a number of years and was subsequently recruited to Hallmark Cards, Inc. headquarters in Kansas City to help lead the book division before finally striking out on my own.

So, while I love poetry, and have even written and edited a few books for children crafted in verse, my expertise, my passion, where I can really help and guide others is …

… primarily prose.