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About The Author
A Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, native, I grew up in the Craftsman house I was brought to when I was born. In my checkered past, I have been a roadie for the late Jimmie Rogers; the youngest woman bartender in Idaho; graduate student/teaching assistant and chaperone for the first collegiate “Bat Girls” at Southern Illinois University; unlimited hydroplane race crew member; an English instructor at North Idaho College; under-cover lay operative for Broward/Miami Vice (Prostitution Division); host of the “green room” and assistant to Ed McMahon on the “Tonight Show;” high school teacher; Hospice volunteer; and a Literary Escort. With my husband, Mark, I co-founded Opera Coeur d’Alene. I was Executive director of the Coeur d’Alene Symphony and produced the “Evening with Garrison Keillor,” a benefit for the Symphony. And, I am, always, a writer.
After graduating from the University of Idaho with a BA in English and History, I was admitted to the baccalaureate English program at Southern Illinois University. My weekly column ran in a San Francisco Bay Area daily for twelve years as well as bylined freelance articles in national publications, niche magazines, and in regional dailies. A Scholar at the Huntington Library and former director of the annual Bay Area Jack London Writers Conference, I am on the faculty of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, and a featured speaker as a member of the Jack London Society at their International Biennial Symposia. I hold membership in the Historical Novel Society of America, Women Writing the West, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and in the Central Coast Branch of the California Writers Club.