Decadent Publishing

I write novels, poetry, and short stories. In broad-brush terms, I have written about alcohol and drug addiction, and more importantly, recovery and the influence of twelve-step programs, incest, racial and religious tolerance, abortion, and war.

In previous lives I was a political activist and business owner and have remained an avid Planned Parenthood supporter over the years. I graduated from Southern Methodist University and hold a Master’s Degree in Creative Studies from the University of Central Oklahoma, where I received the Geoffrey Bocca Memorial Award for graduate writing.

I was born and raised in Oklahoma City, and in 1960 my husband and I took our three children to Virginia while he had a 1-year assignment in Washington—we stayed for fifteen.

Returning to Oklahoma after thirty years as a political activist and consultant, I took over a family business. In 1984 my writing career began.

My first novel, A Sky for Arcadia, was a finalist for the 2001 Oklahoma Center for the Book Award. I’ve published a chapbook, Breaking the Surface; short stories and poems in The Northern Virginia Review, Fearless Book’s Touching, New Plaines Review, Deep Fork Anthology, Dream Quarterly International, and Tight; and poems on Robin Chapman’s Poem a Day Blog and Atticus Books Online.

I am again living in Virginia and am a member of American Independent Writers and the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets.