Writer
I write in order to stay sane, even though it might not seem like it at 2 AM when I’m stumbling for a nightlight, a journal, scribbling furiously. But jumping from the shower with bubbles in my hair to write my thoughts down on a toilet paper square helps me forget any anxiety. Plus, I always have another scene to jot down.
The best part about writing is that it’s never done, never perfect. Even my idea of perfect grows rougher or smoother, darker or lighter, harder or softer. It can still be polished, sanded, shaped. Sometimes the rhythm of my poem works out on the first draft. Other times, I pore over a rhyming dictionary to find the right word. There’s always a paragraph to relocate, a phrase to delete, a word to exchange.
One word. Two words. Three words. Four. The combination of simple symbols can inspire death and destruction or harmony and happiness. Like nucleotides on a DNA strand. Or like notes in a melody. Four notes. Three notes. Two notes. One.
SELECTED WORKS
Fiction for Kids
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Beth Lisa Feldman Prize in Children’s Literature Winner 2023
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Judge's comments: "Caring for Terra" is a cautionary tale about how human action can undermine our environment, but one laced with hope and a call for action. Through compassion and reason, we learn, we can overcome the challenges caused by industrial pollution and nurture nature back to health. The evocative artwork complements a light rhythmic voice through which the narrative unfurls. How we treat the earth is made understandable and the stakes are made personal in such a way that this story-book may help to educate both the youngest readers as well as the adults who might read it to them.
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RI Medical Journal
Johns Hopkins’ Center for Talented Youth Imagine Magazine
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The War on Cancer (Sep 2013)