I began writing at age nine to escape the rasping
of my asthmatic lungs and the crystal meth effects
of asthma medicine. As I grew older my lungs healed
but my craving to write increased. In my teenage
years I won awards from
Story
and
Mademoiselle.
My stories got me into Stanford University where I
was blessed to study with Janet Lewis Winters and
Wallace Stegner. After graduating, the
Amazon Quarterly
published my award winning story
Hands.
I knew I needed a profession that allowed me the freedom to write. Since I understood many of the struggles of ill people, and wanted to help them regan health as I had, I became an Osteopathic Physician.
Now after years of honing my writing skills, and having been published in medical journals, I've completed two fast-paced and compelling novels: Blood Evidence - a medical murder mystery, and Ceremony of Innocence, a story of politics and love in 1972 San Francisco. The literary folks at the Squaw Valley Writers' Conference accepted me in 2006 on the basis of Blood Evidence and the 2009 Napa Valley Writers' Conference accepted me on the basis of Ceremony.
I am also completing a non-fiction work, Triumph over Injury and Pain and have started my next medical murder mystery, Vicious Justice. Vicious Justice, like Blood Evidence, stars San Francisco detectives Eric Fong and Anna Brusci as well as Doctor Maggie Taylor.
I knew I needed a profession that allowed me the freedom to write. Since I understood many of the struggles of ill people, and wanted to help them regan health as I had, I became an Osteopathic Physician.
Now after years of honing my writing skills, and having been published in medical journals, I've completed two fast-paced and compelling novels: Blood Evidence - a medical murder mystery, and Ceremony of Innocence, a story of politics and love in 1972 San Francisco. The literary folks at the Squaw Valley Writers' Conference accepted me in 2006 on the basis of Blood Evidence and the 2009 Napa Valley Writers' Conference accepted me on the basis of Ceremony.
I am also completing a non-fiction work, Triumph over Injury and Pain and have started my next medical murder mystery, Vicious Justice. Vicious Justice, like Blood Evidence, stars San Francisco detectives Eric Fong and Anna Brusci as well as Doctor Maggie Taylor.
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Painting by Joann
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