| My love of travel
was nurtured by my parents, who took my family to every state park in the
Midwest when I was a child. We moved to India when I was in the 8th grade,
and upon my return to the United States six years later I began to pursue
American travel as a serious hobby. In addition to my overseas travels
to thirty countries, I have visited forty-eight states (all but Alaska
and North Dakota), most of them repeatedly, and have lived in six different
states.
My other love is books, and I have spent twenty-five years working in book publishing, writing, editing, proofreading, direct marketing, distribution, wholesale bookselling, and retail bookselling. I currently make my living as a writer, editor and proofreader. I worked in editorial and fulfillment capacities for Random House Direct Marketing, in the contracts department at Crown Publishing, and was Sales Manager for the Inland Distribution division of Inland Book Company. I owned and ran my own independent feminist bookstore for seven years, and have worked in retail stores like the Yale Co-op, Borders Books, Womanbooks, and the University of Michigan. I edited a monthly feminist newsmagazine in New Haven, Connecticut for four years, and had an autobiographical essay published in the literary magazine Common Lives in 1996. My short story “The Dance” appeared in the anthology Heatwave (Alyson Publications, 1997). I've also written numerous custom travel plans for friends and family members to use on their own trips, based on my interest and research on nature preserves, bird-watching, ancient and modern American history, the Civil War, and the Underground Railroad. |