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In 1987, I completed my M.A. in Fiction Writing from Syracuse University. Douglas Ungar advised my thesis. “Tonto In The Trees,” the lead story in that thesis, won both Syracuse University’s Stephen Crane Award for Short Fiction and the Nebraska Review’s Best Fiction for that year. In 1997, my dissertation, When The Voice Must Be The Body: Feminism and Radio Drama, advised by Una Chaudhuri, received the Cynthia Jean Cohen Bull Award for Academic Excellence from the Department of Performance Studies in N.Y.U.’s Tisch School of the Arts, and I began an academic career.  Now retired after over thirty years teaching in Syracuse, New York, and Buffalo, New York; Ankara, Türkiye;  and Lorman, Mississippi, I’ve returned full time to my first love – fiction writing.

I’m currently submitting The Double Souled Son, a literary/historical/fabulist novel based on my family history research, to independent presses and agents. 

I live in Buffalo with my husband Phil and our two Maine Coons, Francesca and Augustus. 

For more details on me, my schooling, and writing, please see Baba Yaga’s Journal.