About

I have been writing professionally since 2005 and since then my work has appeared in a variety of places including, USA Today, Livestrong, The Myriad Arts & Literary Magazine, The Daily Puppy, several art exhibitions including Earth from Above and Honoré Daumier & La Maison Aubert: Political and Social Satire in Paris and various websites such as Thought Catalog, Editage and PopWrapped. From 2010 to 2015, I wrote and edited several web columns for Suite101.com which included art books and classical art history before the site officially closed.

For my education, I attended Rutgers University where I double majored in art history and journalism and media studies. After graduation, I sort of floated through life taking crappy jobs and putting off graduate school even though I had been admitted to Sotheby’s, Christie’s and a program done through the Wallace Collection for art business. In the end, I decided I liked the freedom teaching would provide me and so I went on to Kean University where I received my teaching credentials in elementary and secondary education for English literature. I was lucky and was able to begin teaching fairly quickly, my first job was teaching high school French and then middle school French. I published my first novel during this time, Miss Burton’s Class: Tales of a 5th Grade Teacher Turned Zombie Survivalist. 

After that, I have been a middle school language arts teacher ever since. I went on to complete my masters through Southern New Hampshire University in English literature and creative writing. I moved into teaching college-level English and reading soon after and it is where I am at my happiest. Around that time I published two more novels, January Rain and An August Morning.

More recently, I finished my doctoral studies at Capella University and have since published my research, Literacy Integration in the Urban Visual Arts Classroom: A Case Study Approach. Last year, I began to revamp this website of mine and went back to reviewing books like I had done previously. I review romance, chick lit, mysteries, nonfiction works, horror and art books on this site. I love to read and I enjoy sharing my opinions on the books that I have read with others.

In 2017, I married my longtime boyfriend, Phil and in 2018, we welcomed our son, Logan. We welcomed our second son, Rory, in 2020 during the pandemic insanity. Our daughter, Violet, came fast and fiercely into our family in 2022. Phil and I enjoyed nearly 10 years together before his untimely passing this fall. I am navigating an entirely new life without my love and balancing being a young widow, raising our children as a single mom and starting a new job. Life can be so very unexpected.