I have liked writing since I was a little kid. Early writing activities included multiple attempts at getting published in Readers Digest's "Life in These United States," writing radio show scripts which I produced on a cassette player in my room, and parodying stories in the style of authors I admired. After I dropped out of college, I wrote for fun, then got married, had children, stopped writing for fun and began writing for work (web content, scientific textbook ad copy, and editing for other authors). I went back to school as an adult and earned a BA in Liberal Arts and an MFA in Creative Writing ​ I have garnered over fifty publications in literary journals and magazines, including McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The Missouri Review, Ninth Letter, Fourth Genre, Arts & Letters, as well as other journals and anthologies. My memoir, Mothers of Sparta, won the 2019 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Nonfiction, and the 2019 Florida Book Award Gold Medal for General Nonfiction.