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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Introduction | I am currently living in the San Francisco Zen Center, studying Buddhism. I am a produced playwright, an ordained minister, an English teacher, and a former social worker. I have worked with a variety of populations: inmates, teenage sex offenders, special needs students, gay, lesbian, and transgender youth, and drug addicts. The boring stuff: I hold a California Teaching Credential from California State University, Northridge; an M.A. in Playwriting from the University of New Mexico; a B.A. in English from the University of Massachusets; an AA from Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, MA; a High School Diploma from Georgetown High School, MA; a fond memory of Penn Brook Elementary School, Georgetown, MA (Mrs. Salt was my favorite teacher); a slight resentment from Perley Elementary School, Georgetown, MA (Mrs. Ryan, my kindergarten teacher, never let us finger paint); and more fond memories from a Catholic day school in Beverly, MA, before we moved to Georgetown (This school had an indoor swimming pool and a circular balcony in the gym where we played intense games of Duck, Duck, Goose). I've lived in London, New Mexico, and Alaska. |
| Interests | Red Sox, hiking, yoga, any cultural event, laughing til I pee my pants (it has happened now that I'm middle-aged!), barbequing, reading anything good, writing, spending time with my family and friends, hanging out with my dogs |
| Favorite movies | Lawrence of Arabia, Tootsie, Summer of '42, Some Like it Hot, Harold and Maude, Amadeus |
| Favorite music | Springsteen, any opera, tribal music |
| Favorite books | This is so hard! A Prayer for Owen Meany, Housekeeping, Ceremony, A Mantis Carol |