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Like many children of New England, I grew up on a rich literary history: character-driven narratives from Louisa May Alcott (with visits to her home, left) to Stephen King, philosophy of Thoreau and Emerson, storytelling of Longfellow to Dan Brown. Like these writers, my own writing often infuses the deep history and strong sense of place of towns of New England, and showcases the character that comes from the determination of Boston, education in Cambridge, freedom of Provincetown, and drive to survive the weather of inland Maine and mountainous New Hampshire.

Unlike many of these writers, I also left New England. Graduate studies took me to the UK, job contract adventures to Korea and Hong Kong, longer term work in London and Amsterdam, with plenty of time spent in Brussels, Paris, Milan, and Rome. I’m fascinated by the roles people play when they are put into new cultural conditions, and how switching languages and change up attitudes.

My writing often looks at the interplay of different cultures in society, framed around social issues and characters with compelling arcs as they are put into new or uncomfortable-to-them environments.