Received MFA in Fiction from Vermont College. Mentored by Bret Lott, Pamela Painter, Sharon Sheehe Starke. Strongly influenced by Lynne Sharon Schwartz and Tony Whedon, as well as hundreds of other writers, such as Virginia Woolf, Henry James, James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Annie Dillard, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje, and many others.

Nominated for Frankfurt eBook Award 2000 (for novel LOVING MARIE), nominated for Pushcart Prize 2000 (for essay on writing). Johnson State College Alumna of the Year Award, 1999. Many other awards and honors.

This summer will see the publication of several new children's works and another guide. THE MAGICAL SNOW ANGEL, a children's picture book, will be published by MightyBook.com in July/August; AFTER ALWAYS (a young adult novel) is scheduled for August with Avid Press; A TALE OF LAVALLAH (illustrated middle grade fantasy) is ready to come out anytime from BooksOnScreen; a paranormal novel for adults, written under my pseudonym Diana Lorde, will be published by Dark Star Publications in August and is entitled SOMEWHERE OUT THERE; and my latest guide, written with my husband Bobby, about online auctions, entitled THE UNOFFICIAL GUIDE TO eBAY AND ONLINE AUCTIONS will be published by IDG Books in September. While I await all these new releases, I am working on completing a novel called JACK'S TRUCK, dedicated to my mother who recently passed away and to my beloved sister Candy.