Author "Write Choices: Elements of Nonfiction Storytelling" and "Caught in the Crossfire: A Year on Abortion’s Front Line"), teacher (associate professor of English and nonfiction writing at the University of New Hampshire), freelance writer (essays and stories in national and regional publications, including The Washington Post, Yankee, Redbook, House Beautiful, The Writer, Walking, New England Monthly Magazine, Boston Magazine, The Boston Globe Magazine, and Parenting.) Before she began the double life of teacher-writer, she was a feature writer for The Hartford Courant, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and The Herald in Everett, WA.