"For the past 30 years, I have helped people learn to write better. I have worked as a journalist, a freelance writer and as a technical writer. I love it when people discover that they have something to say and are proud to put pen to paper. Whether you have a report to write or want to tell about a traumatic, inspirational, a once-in-a-lifetime event, I can provide the assistance you need to organize and prioritize what to do with your information.

My writing has won awards in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and appeared in numerous publications including three articles and an essay in Southern Writers in 2016. I've published in The Oak Ridger, The Oak Ridge Observer, the Knoxville News-Sentinel, The Writer, Blue Ridge Country, Mature Living, Ford Times, The Notebook and numerous other publications.

I am the recipient of the Oak Ridge Arts Council Award in 2013 for contribution to the literary arts as one of the founders of the Tennessee Mountain Writers Conference, now in its 30th year (2017). I was one of 20 writers included in the book Tennessee Women of Vision and Courage, published in 2012, for my entry about nuclear scientist Elizabeth Rona.

I was editor of the first Tennessee Writers Alliance anthology A Tennessee Landscape, People, and Places (1996); a poetry anthology Remember September Prompted Poetry in (2010); and In God’s Hand anthology published in (2017).

I can assist with manuscripts, creative writing, ghostwriting and more. If you have a writing project started, I can help you finish it. Whether you want to achieve a better grade or to achieve personal satisfaction, please let me help you." less...