I’ve had a lot of jobs in my life, odd and otherwise, but I’ve always been writing. I started out as a poet, although I don’t remember consciously making that choice. Good poems are full of fiction, just as good fiction is full of poetry.
My four full-length poetry books are Lucid Suitcase, The Yellow Hotel, Wonderbender, and The Warhol Pillows. In addition, I’ve published five poetry chapbooks and a steamer trunk full of individual poems in magazines. In fiction, I’ve published Gillyflower, My Famous Brain, and, in 2025, The Bayrose Files (with Regal House), plus a cache of individual stories and flash fiction, online and in print. Many of these works have won prizes and other honors.
My forthcoming Regal House novella, A Door in the Floor, charts the continuing journey of Violet Maris, protagonist of The Bayrose Files, as she flees a prestigious artists’ and writers’ colony in disgrace and begins to restructure her life while confronting her guilt and grief. Violet reinvents herself in order to qualify for a job at small independent art college that, while perpetually wriggling in debt, embraces an assortment of quirky professors and administrators, as well as a delightfully bohemian student body.
To appreciate the full Violet Maris Experience, it would be a terrific idea to read The Bayrose Files first…but you don’t have to. A Door in the Floor definitely offers you a complete set of paints and brushes to render the full picture. Of all the characters I’ve created, I think Violet Maris is my favorite, and I intend to go on writing about her. She’s smart and funny and sound of heart. You never know what she’s going to do next.
I live about seven miles outside of Boston in a wacky old house on an acre and a half of property that’s bordered by a lovely wide brook. Happy co-owners of this haven are my husband Carey and our cats—two at the moment, but in the past, frequently more than that.
I’m absolutely overjoyed to be back with Regal House for a second book!
Regal House Publishing is delighted to bring you A Door in the Floor in 2028.
