ARTIST STATEMENT
I read by flashlight when I was little because books were more compelling than sleep, that is, until my mother caught me and told me dreams were important, too. She was right about that. My dreams unleashed the imagination in ways that were inconceivable to the conscious mind. I continue to remind myself that writing is an act of the imagination and I can't always manipulate the outcome. It's the element of surprise in the act of writing that makes it all worthwhile.
BIO
After graduating cum laude from the University of Georgia with a major in French Drama and a minor in Journalism, a circuitous route through Charleston, Cambridge, Provincetown, Key West and Nice, France ended in New York where I studied screenwriting at New York University, the New School and privately under screenwriter Meade Roberts who adapted for the screen Tennessee Williams' plays SUMMER AND SMOKE and THE FUGITIVE KIND. I was awarded an Edward Albee Fellowship for my screenplay ZERO GRAVITY and was a finalist in the Writers Guild East Foundation Fellowships for my screenplay DODGE AND BURN. IN THE NAME OF LOVE and OUT TO LUNCH were finalists in the Houston Film Festival Screenwriting competition. For my play PERSONAL EFFECTS, I received a fellowship from the M.E.T. Theater in New York. Then I turned to fiction as my medium and wrote five novels, my most recent SEPTEMBER 10TH, about a shell-shocked architect who disappears after 9/11. My novel SLOW REVEAL was a finalist in the Heekin Group Foundation James Fellowship.
I read by flashlight when I was little because books were more compelling than sleep, that is, until my mother caught me and told me dreams were important, too. She was right about that. My dreams unleashed the imagination in ways that were inconceivable to the conscious mind. I continue to remind myself that writing is an act of the imagination and I can't always manipulate the outcome. It's the element of surprise in the act of writing that makes it all worthwhile.
BIO
After graduating cum laude from the University of Georgia with a major in French Drama and a minor in Journalism, a circuitous route through Charleston, Cambridge, Provincetown, Key West and Nice, France ended in New York where I studied screenwriting at New York University, the New School and privately under screenwriter Meade Roberts who adapted for the screen Tennessee Williams' plays SUMMER AND SMOKE and THE FUGITIVE KIND. I was awarded an Edward Albee Fellowship for my screenplay ZERO GRAVITY and was a finalist in the Writers Guild East Foundation Fellowships for my screenplay DODGE AND BURN. IN THE NAME OF LOVE and OUT TO LUNCH were finalists in the Houston Film Festival Screenwriting competition. For my play PERSONAL EFFECTS, I received a fellowship from the M.E.T. Theater in New York. Then I turned to fiction as my medium and wrote five novels, my most recent SEPTEMBER 10TH, about a shell-shocked architect who disappears after 9/11. My novel SLOW REVEAL was a finalist in the Heekin Group Foundation James Fellowship.