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<\/a>Welcome to my website: <\/strong>Here’s a bit about me:
– Creative practitioner working in literary, performing, and visual arts
– Author of award-winning non-fiction prose and lyrical poetry
– Storyteller writing and performing memoir-style narratives by adults for adults
– Educator bringing her vibrant self to workshops and classrooms for all ages
– Artist exhibiting my original fine art<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hot-off-the-Press<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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I received two awards for my published writing from the Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest 2025-2026. Second Place in the state in the Speeches category for the sold-out live performance of my original personal narrative story, selected and produced by Generation Women at The Public Theater\/Joe’s Pub, in NYC, “Oh, What a Night: Rapture, Regret, Empowerment.” The second award for Honorable Mention in the Creative Verse\/Single Poem category for my poem “Creation Pilgrimage,” published in the Connecticut Bards Poetry Review 2025, published by Local Gems Poetry Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus, five of my original poems are featured on the Present Poetry Podcast!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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