About Me

Hi.  Welcome to my site. Entwining traditional and digital media, I create stories and illustrations that evoke in young readers a feeling of belonging.

An award-winning writer and educator with freelance experience as a feature reporter, copy editor, researcher, and illustrator, I produce stories, songs, and art for the young at heart.

Noted as an instructional technology leader in Marquis' Who’s Who of American Women, I earned the MCPS Middle School Computer Science Teacher Award of Excellence and won Second Place in an SCBWI Mid-Atlantic Fiction Contest.
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With an M.Ed. as a Reading Specialist and MD Advanced Professional Certification in English, reading, art, and computer applications; I taught English, drama, journalism, reading, studio arts, computer art, and computer animation in public, secondary schools.

A member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, I study story telling in workshops at the Highlights Foundation and Creature Teacher Art of Aaron Blaise.
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I relish every stage in creation: brainstorming, researching, finding models and locations, shooting reference photos, sketching, writing manuscripts, revising, making thumbnails and dummies, drawing and painting with wet and dry media or on the computer, revising, refining, and revealing.  Enjoy.