Education and Background

  • Master of Arts in Writing, 2004, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
  • Bachelor of Arts in Communications, The American University, Washington, DC
  • Bay to Ocean Writers Conference, February 2011 and February 2012
  • Cape Cod Writers Conference, Craigville, MA Attended week-long conferences on Memoir, Creative Non-fiction, Humor Writing and Writing for Children, August 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011
  • Writers at the Beach Conference, Rehoboth Beach, DE
  • Attended two-day conferences on Memoir Writing and other topics, March 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010
  • Selected for Jenny McKean Moore Workshop (George Washington University), Fall 2010
  • National Center for Creative Aging seminar, January 2009
  • Attended various writing classes and workshops through Georgetown University, Washington Independent Writers and the Writers Center, 1990 – present