About me
If you had asked me when I was ten years old what I wanted to be, I would have said a writer. But life is funny. The times I grew up in and my family background led me to become a scientist instead. So I went into science research, then science teaching. After 20+ years of high school teaching I became a college professor. Now many years later, I am back to my childhood dream: I’m a writer!
I’ve always been an avid reader, starting with my discovery of L. Frank Baum’s Oz books when I was 6 or 7 years old. I still read a lot, mostly detective fiction, and this has inspired me to write detective novels as well as the Matty Trescott books. I was thrilled when Ring Out Wild Bells was nominated for an Agatha, one of the major awards in detective fiction.
I have also loved Broadway musicals my whole life. I grew up in New York City and still go to Broadway when I can. Now that I live in Connecticut, I also enjoy the Goodspeed Opera House, the Williamstown Theater Festival and other regional theaters. My other love is movies — the classics by Alfred Hitchcock and Frank Capra and other directors of the 1930s-1950s, as well as the great movie musicals of that era.
Currently I live in Connecticut with my husband Steve and our cat Ariel. I have a grown daughter, Jill Susannah, who lives with her husband Baird, in Minnesota; they both teach at Carleton College. You can see the four of us in the photos below. (Ariel wasn’t there.)
