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In 1996, Miriam's House - the organization I founded, directed and where I lived - opened its doors to its first residents.

A home for Washington, DC's formerly homeless women with AIDS, Miriam's House was the focus of my work, life and passion until the end of 2009, when I left because of chronic migraine disease.

Wanting not to forget the women, I began writing their stories. Many hours at the computer and one MFA in Creative Nonfiction degree later, my book was published:

            NOWHERE ELSE I WANT TO BE: A MEMOIR
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AWARD-WINNING MEMOIR
GRAND PRIZE, Nonfiction, Authors Talk About It Book Contest 2017; 
Finalist, Indie Excellence Book Awards 2017/Memoir;
Finalist, Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2017/
Memoir and Autobiography;
Finalist, Sarton Women's Book Award 2018

You can read reviews HERE.

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AWARD-WINNING ESSAYS
Five of my essays have won awards for literary nonfiction:
  • The Drummer won Honorable Mention in Soundings Review's First Publication Contest (2014)
  • Pictures in Leaves won the 41st New Millennium Writings Literary Nonfiction Award (2016);
  • Highest and Best was named Honorable Mention in Under the Gum Tree's Fifth Anniversary Contest (2016)
  • Sensitive was a Finalist in Solstice Literary Magazine's Summer Contest (2020)
  • The Law of Simultaneous Contrast won the 2021 Tucson Festival of Books Nonfiction Award. It was later published in the 2021 Vassar Review.

Read these essays and others HERE.

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I live in Washington, DC with my wonderful husband, Tim (about whom you'll read in the memoir). I'm writing essays and seeking a publisher for an essay collection about life as lived and understood by a highly sensitive person.