Over the past few years I’ve been thinking very much about what an amazing gift it is for those picture book authors who are also illustrators. Most especially those who choose to write for the very young. I could be wrong, but I have this sense that an ability to call upon the visual creative [...]
I've lived and traveled around the world, but now make my home in California.
By day, I teach; evenings and many weekends, I write.
My teaching, reading, and writing eventually led to a Master's degree in Language and Literacy and, later, an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
My first picture book, BLUE ON BLUE, is forthcoming from Beach Lane Books (Simon and Schuster).