I spent my formative years in South Florida, the only child of New York expatriates with a penchant for the Bohemian lifestyle, my best friend was a good book.

At Florida State University I majored in English and then taught high school for five years while working toward a Masters degree in English Education and a Certificate of Concentration in Women’s Studies. I also taught freshman composition at Arizona State University.

During the Eighties, as a wife and mother, I opened a model and talent center, the Southwest’s largest. As an agent, and newly minted entrepreneur I marketed and managed over three hundred people. After ten years I sold my self-created circus to become a corporate trainer and motivational speaker for an international jewelry company with membership in National Speaker’s Association from 1980-2000.

In 2000 I began to pursue my dream of writing. Having written two satires about the upscale Scottsdale crowd, I took a different direction and completed two more books. The third, Paper Children, is a family saga based on my grandmother’s letters from her family in Poland before and after World War Two. Through translations and personal recollections I crafted a powerful immigrant’s story of determination and passion.

The fourth novel, The Blind Eye, is a sweeping historical novel set in the 15th and 20th centuries. It is, at times, a heart-wrenching story dealing with the survival of the Sephardic Jews during the Spanish Inquisition. Both Paper Children and The Blind Eye required extensive research and travel to Poland, Spain and Portugal.

My fifth novel, Stressed in Scottsdale, expands my satirical series about Jean Rubin into the arena of politics and the environment. I pokee fun at the denizens of an upscale community while tackling serious issues of corruption and air quality issues.

My motivation quite simply...

"I love the written word. I have stories to tell.".