I always wanted to write, and studied fiction writing with E. L. Doctorow at Sarah Lawrence College. After graduation I chose publishing as my career, partly out of fear of failure at the one thing I most wanted to do. I spent several years happily — though a little enviously — serving as a handmaiden to other writers, working as an editor at Viking Press book publishers and Redbook, Family Circle, and Reader's Digest magazines. I wrote a little during that time, and had feature articles published in the aforementioned magazines as well as others. But novel writing was what I most longed, and feared, to do.

In 2008, I told myself it was finally time to reckon with my ambition to write. In the years since then, I’ve finished five novels and a memoir.

Having gotten a late start in my literary career, in the interest of releasing my books in a timely fashion, I decided to become an author/publisher, and created my own imprint, Fieldwood Books.  

My first novel, Stones River: A Civil War Story of Courage, Sacrifice, and an Otherworldly Love, came out in September 2025. Holding my finished book in my hands for the first time, I was filled with the deep satisfaction of having at last overcome the inner obstacles to realizing my lifelong dream.

Soldier’s Joy, the second book in The Sentinel Heart Trilogy, will be published in September 2026, and the third book, Bright Canaan, will launch in 2027.

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