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ABOUT ME:

I grew up in San Diego, California in a working-class family: my father was a printer and my mother worked in a convalescent home. I got a degree in Literature from the University of California, San Diego, and from there I moved to London, where I got a job with a small publisher, Marion Boyars (formerly of Calder & Boyars). We were a four-person office, so I did everything: typed, answered phones, read manuscripts, edited books, wrote promotional copy. I learned a lot and developed a deep love and respect for small presses, but I also found that working for one left me no time or energy to do what I wanted, which was to write, so I moved back to California, this time to San Francisco.

That was several decades ago. Since then I’ve worked as a freelance writer, writing everything from book reviews to television spots, newsletters, print ads, and feature stories. I worked at the University of California Press for many years, writing jacket and catalog copy. All that time I was writing fiction: a behemoth first novel that went nowhere fast, several short stories, a few aborted novels, a reasonably viable one that was never published, and finally Slipstream, which started out life as LAX. My work has appeared in Faultline, the East Bay Express, and the Women’s Review of Books, among other publications, and I’ve had the pleasure of being an instructor at Macondo, a master writers workshop led by Sandra Cisneros in San Antonio. I’m writing full-time now, working on a new novel, and hoping the stories I have inside will find their way out into the world.