My first book, Clear Skies, Deep Water: A Chautauqua Memoir, was published in 2014 by Excelsior Editions, a trade imprint of SUNY Press. I hold a bachelor of science degree in social justice from Montana State University, and received my MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Carlow University, where I studied in Pittsburgh and Ireland. I live and write in beautiful western New York State, with my husband Jeff Hunter and our dog Henry. And I live alongside many of the characters in my book, who are all still speaking to me.