I'm a poet, a freelance writer, a romantic and a feminist, who loves old Hollywood, vintage clothes and triple lattes.. I have a book of poems out entitled  "Nothing Gold Can Stay." (2011) ISBN 978-0-9866461-0-2.

I am thrilled to have won the goodreads.com monthly poetry contest  in December, 2011 and again  in May, 2012. with my poems "Thirst." and "There's Always the Guy.' This is an open competition voted upon by the readers. I had a piece in the Huffington Post recently and three pieces, entitled  “Too Late Tomorrow” and "The Island Dog" and "Perfectly Sad" have appeared online at Poetry Breakfast.

My poem "The Island Dog" will be included in a hardcover anthology entitled "Estuary," an international poetry and visual arts album to be printed in England in December.  Two others, “Following Seas” and “The Gift of Donovan,” appear in the first issue of the quarterly poetry e-zine called IMPpress, an international poetry and art publishing house. 

A Glasgow born Canadian, I am an insatiable traveler, my various incarnations including stints as a bartender, flight attendant, speechwriter, house painter, short order cook, corporate editor, and perhaps her favourite, a freelance photographer specializing in black and white.

As a freelance writer in Toronto, I've written as a guest columnist in the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star,  and won a newspaper award for my fiction writing. My short stories and poetry have appeared in various literary journals and my poems have won contests, been anthologized in collections and appeared in newsstand magazines 

To know me is to know my absolute passion for two things above all: writing, and the ocean. I'd write IN the ocean but I've tried and found it problematic. So I now leave my notepad on a dry piece of coral onshore...