About Me

I studied writing with E. L. Doctorow at Sarah Lawrence College and afterward chose publishing as my career. I started out at Viking Press book publishers  as an editorial assistant in charge of the slush pile—the unsolicited, unagented manuscripts that publishers at that time were still willing to consider. Although Viking had accepted nothing from that source for twenty-seven years, as an idealistic aspiring writer I had hopes of finding a gem in the slush, and so I read anything that seemed to have promise. Thus I discovered and became the editor of the bestseller Ordinary People by Judith Guest. 

I moved to magazines and was a fiction editor at Redbook, and a senior editor at Family Circle and Reader's Digest. My feature articles have appeared in these and other magazines, two of my essays ran in the Brevity blog, and an excerpt from my novel Invented Lives was published in Embark literary journal in 2021. 

When not writing or working on publishing my books, I read, knit (while listening to audiobooks), sing in a choir, hike with my rescue dog in the beautiful Tennessee woods near my home, and share the creative life with my husband, composer Douglas Hedwig.