My poems and illustrations appear in AN ASSORTMENT OF ANIMALS: A POETRY ANTHOLOGY (2018) and FRIENDS AND ANEMONES: OCEAN POEMS FOR CHILDREN (2020), published by The Writers' Loft in Hudson, MA. Watercolor, gouache, and found papers are materials showcased in my collage art. In 2020, I used vintage cloth trim in collages for a #100DaysOfRickrack project posted on twitter and Instagram.

Butterfly, Butterfly, a poem featuring a caring rescue by big-hearted little gardener appeared in High Five (2012). Runaway Blue, a Southwest folktale, appeared in Highlights (2010). Tend The Garden is featured in 10*10 POETRY ANTHOLOGY: CELEBRATING 10 in 10 DIFFERENT WAYS (2021), compiled by Bridget Magee. Pomelo Books included my poem, Sign, in THINGS WE DO (2021) and my poem, Yucky, in THINGS WE FEEL (2022) anthologies compiled by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong. The IBBY Children in Crisis Fund receives all of the profits from the sales of these A-Z poetry plus books.

Growing up in Greenfield, Massachusetts, I had an abundance of art resources right next door at Lapointe's Color Centre, a shop owned by my parents. I used everything I could get my hands on to cut and craft as a child. Paper was an endless supply of brown bags, the backs of store receipts, and discontinued wallpaper books. The collage artist I am today began with a love of scissors, scraps, and the smell of paste.

My father constructed my very first art gallery. One night he came home from work, overalls and glasses spattered with house paint, carrying a huge slate that he salvaged from a job site. He took out one of the dining room windows and installed a blackboard. Every season I drew a new scene to display at family gatherings.

My mother gave all seven of us chores to do to earn spending money. I ironed handkerchiefs for a penny a piece, scrubbed the bathroom sink with Bab-o and vacuumed up my chalk dust. Then I would head straight to the 5 & 10 for watercolor paints, Crayolas, and more colored chalk. Yabba-dabba-doo!

As a member of SCBWI, I participate in the longstanding Concord Critique Group. The Writers' Loft hosts our author-illustrator critique partners monthly meetings. I participate in Julie Hedlund’s 12 x 12 Picture Book Challenge. As a Good Ship Illustration crew member I completed the Fly Your Freak Flag and Picture Book courses. I attended three Rutgers One-on-One Plus Conferences in 2008, 2015, and 2017.

I balance writing and illustrating with an early intervention practice servicing the needs of families with children who are deaf and hard of hearing. When not riding rail trails with my husband or visiting with my two adult children I am usually walking to my local library.