Before moving to Whitefish, Montana in 1998, she lived in Rockford, Illinois where she was active in public readings. She holds a B.A. from Northern Illinois University and an M.A. from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her thriller The Pluperfect Phantom is a time warp story set in Chicago. Her work has appeared in many literary magazines. She was a featured writer in Confluence: A Living Literary Legacy of the Rock River Valley, Rockford 2000 anthology. Women at the Well was first published by American Studies Press, Tampa, FL in 1989. Her second book of narrative poetry Land of the Four Quarters was published by Northwoods Press in 1994.