My sense of wonder and delight in the natural world,
and my love of children's imaginary play
inspire my art and writing.
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I am a lifelong book lover and artist. Growing up in a family of English teachers, surrounded by mountains of books, oodles of paper and pencils, it is inevitable that I would want to make my own books.
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As a baby, I developed a taste for books by eating select pages of my family’s collection of paperbacks. As a toddler, I began to write and draw in crayon on the pages of my own small collection of books. Not content with the black and white drawings in my Winnie-the-Pooh books, I added watercolors to the illustrations.
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I have a BA in Art History and an MFA in Bookarts/Printmaking. After working in the commercial printing industry and museum publishing, I became an art teacher. I recently retired after over two decades as a Museum Educator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art where
I had the opportunity to write many educational materials for children. I also illustrated a coloring book that has been reprinted several times and given to thousands of preschool students before their visit to the museum.
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I joined SCBWI in 2016 on the recommendation of acclaimed author/illustrator Greg Pizzoli who was my teacher at the University of the Arts.
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After actively participating in Eastern PA SCBWI events, working and reworking my portfolio and first manuscripts, I am ready for the next steps
to realizing my dreams.
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