Away With Words

Author, Playwright, Publisher, Journalist, Editor, Educator

So many sentences absolutely struck with an axe out of crystal.

Virginia Woolf

Career Highlights

• April 2022-on. Founding Board of Directors, The Concord Bridge, a weekly non-profit newspaper distributed free to all homes and businesses in Concord, MA. Launched October 22, 2022

• Editorial Assistant, The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol 6, working with Nigel Nicolson

• Number 21, commissioned by the Don Quixote Experimental Children’s Theatre and performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music

• Editor and publisher, Nantucket Map & Legend, an arts and issues newspaper

• Plays produced in New York, Nantucket & Chicago; artistic director, Theatre Workshop of Nantucket

• Instructor in British and American fiction at Harvard University’s Institute for Learning in Retirement

• Award-winning journalist, Sigma Delta Chi for best magazine reporting: “Teenage Suicide,” Louisville Today Magazine

• Articles in the following magazines: The Saturday Review (cover story), Ms Magazine, Bride, McCall’s, People, New York, United’s In-Flight, Boston, Louisville Today, among others

• Articles in the following newspapers: The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Louisville Courier-Journal, among others

Publications

Poetry and short fiction, Harvest, an online magazine at Harvard University

Building with Nantucket in Mind, A Design Guidelines Manual, writer & photographer

From Hearth to Horizons, contributor, editor

A Nantucket Dog

Education

MS – Columbia University, School of Journalism

MA – Sussex University, Brighton, England. Specializing in the fiction of Virginia Woolf (Quentin Bell, thesis advisor)

BA – Centre College of Kentucky, English literature