In 2002, I won a fiction award for The Gemini Moon from the SouthWest Writers Contest in Albuquerque. This short story inspired me to create a trilogy of tales about the post-Woodstock explosion of communes. In the U.S., Canada, and Europe, many of us were looking for peace, love and happiness. I found it necessary to pursue that by living in a commune. As self-sufficiency and living off-the-grid took hold, going back to the land came next. During that time, I lived in a tipi and became a midwife so that I could have my child at home. My first novel, Once Upon A Commune is about those tur... View More »

In 2002, I won a fiction award for The Gemini Moon from the SouthWest Writers Contest in Albuquerque. This short story inspired me to create a trilogy of tales about the post-Woodstock explosion of communes. In the U.S., Canada, and Europe, many of us were looking for peace, love and happiness. I found it necessary to pursue that by living in a commune. As self-sufficiency and living off-the-grid took hold, going back to the land came next. During that time, I lived in a tipi and became a midwife so that I could have my child at home. My first novel, Once Upon A Commune is about those turbulent times in history that changed the way America looks at herself. «View Less

I hope to find an agent as I self-published this first novel in 2010 and have begun the second one, A Vegetarian in a Fox Fur Coat which continues the protagonist's new life experiences as she survives a divorce, custody battle and loss of her home.

In 2002, I won a fiction award for The Gemini Moon from the SouthWest Writers Contest in Albuquerque. This short story inspired me to create a trilogy of tales about the post-Woodstock explosion of communes. In the U.S., Canada, and Europe, many of us were looking for peace, love and happiness. I found it necessary to pursue that by living in a commune. As self-sufficiency and living off-the-grid took hold, going back to the land came next. During that time, I lived in a tipi and became a midwife so that I could have my child at home. My first novel, Once Upon A Commune is about those turbulent times in history that changed the way America looks at herself. «View Less