About

Words, dashes, semi-colons, commas, and exclamation marks (I love a good exclamation mark!) have tumbled out of me for years. My journey pursuing the perfect sentence has been both straightforward and circuitous. I’ve written nothing but the facts, and I’ve created worlds out of pure imagination. Either way, I love telling the story. Stories are connectors. They bridge our experiences and help us understand each other better.

I crashed into the literary world when I was six and won my first writing award. Fast forward through years as a journalist, mom, volunteer, freelance writer, editor, artist, small business owner, and circus performer (not really, but wouldn’t that be something?) and you find me happily planted in the world of fiction with my debut novel, Toward the Corner of Mercy and Peace.

My story began in the bootheel of Missouri but quickly moved to a little corner of western Kentucky called Paducah. My husband, an engineer, operates out of the left side of his brain, while I doggedly remain on the right side. His facts and my feelings are a nice balance actually—together we manage to have a complete brain. Our forty-plus-year marriage produced two married sons, seven grandchildren, and a kooky little dog, all of whom keep us entertained.