About

I think some people move to New York City and within a week call themselves New Yorkers. I’ve been here 25 years, and yet when someone asks me where I’m from I still answer “I live in New York City, but I’m from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.” I grew up in Amish Country and spent my childhood viewing the USA from the back of a 1979 Volkswagen Camper Van. I’m pretty sure I left my heart somewhere on the interstate.

I have played saucy maids, longsuffering spinsters, and quirky leading ladies on and off-Broadway and at regional theaters around the country. I’ve worn no makeup onscreen with some of Hollywood’s most gorgeous stars, and Rick Sordelet (Broadway’s premier fight director) once told me I drove a cop car as well as any stunt woman.

After reading to my daughter every night for seven years, I began narrating audiobooks in my home studio, and then I started writing stories of my own. My best-selling Hearts of the Ridge series is available now from The Wild Rose Press.

I live in Upper Manhattan with my husband Pete, daughter Cate and Maine Coon Mix kitty, Tessa.