About
I grew up in a previously flourishing Lancashire seaside resort. I worked various part time jobs from age fourteen, the least popular being a chamber maid. Art and chemistry were my favorite subjects at high school. Benefitting from free British education I studied medical sciences, attending Cambridge University.
I immigrated to the U.S. in the late 1970's moving to Washington state to raise two daughters. I decided to stay. I've worked for non-profits during my career and recently retired from a part-time volunteer medical position.
I traveled extensively on a shoe-string budget while in college, then overland for six months to Afghanistan, Iran, India, Nepal in my late twenties. A staffing post in 2005 on the Semester at Sea circumnavigated the earth. I revisited several countries witnessing the consequences of population growth and pollution.
The Hedgebrook Foundation and Jackstraw Writers program generously provided valuable support during my early writing career. My visual art and poetry has been accepted in many print magazines and online, including the Raven Chronicles award winning anthology: Take a Stand: Art Against Hate, Strange Fruit, One Art, Pontoon, Poetry on the Buses, Ars Medica, Terra Nova, Heliotrope, Wild Roof Journal and The Madrona Project volumes 3 and 7.
My poetry book's epigraph advises: Look around you, everything you see quivers with being. Pay attention!