| I have a degree in English from Yale. I have written professionally for the Iowa City Icon and Textbrokers. |
| I am an accomplished writer, having kept a journal for more than thirty years. I have taught creative writing in high schools and colleges, using a special system, Writing Floes, to help students melt their writing blocks away. |
| As an undergraduate at Yale, my senior thesis was "The Transcendence of Time in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot". I have tutored students and substituted in Literature classes at Washington College. |
| I am an accomplished poet, proficient in many forms. (Sonnet, sestina, etc.) |
| I was married to a Shakespeare professor. The marriage was stressed because I knew the works of Shakespeare better than she did. |