Writer World Traveler Lifelong Learner

My first novel, Still Kickin'  will be  published in the spring of 2025 by Tuleburg Press.  The novel is set in the San  Joaquin Valley of California where I was born and raised. I  relocated to the Bay Area to attend San Francisco State University (BA English) and return to the valley to visit family and attend reunions.

I co-authored a biography of my grandmother, A Little Piece of Leather Well Put Together with my cousin Joyce Hanson and  had a poem published in Spectrum 18. My essay on racism aired on Perspectives on KQED public radio. I contributed the first chapter of my novel, Still Kickin' to Table of 10: An Anthology (published in memory of Camille Minichino). I am currently writing my  second novel Some Greens for my Blues set in post-WWII Oakland, California.

I am a member of the California Writers Club, and an active participant in a critique group of accomplished and published Bay Area writers. I am an educator, literacy coach and avid mystery reader, I spend my free time enjoying my family, writing, exploring Bay Area trails alone and with my GirlTrek sisters, attending blues and jazz concerts, and traveling abroad as frequently as possible.