I have a degree in French literature and language from the University of Maryland College Park. Before I found Stein, I loved Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and Jacque Prevert. My current passion is Jane and Paul Bowles. I spent three weeks working on my writing with Paul Bowles in Tangier, Morocco in the early 1980s. PB helped with some of my Gertrude Stein poems which much later became part of my opera. more...