Long, long ago, I won a national poetry contest with the first poem I ever sent out into the world. The second poem was published in a...

Read my new essay (it won a prize)

here are some good ways to get to know me better: I'm on pretty much every social media, a different facet on each one. Pick your poison

They called my writing "femme-Kafka" so I went with it! The launch party for A FLASH OF DARKNESS was Kafka themed. Set in an underground...

My debut story collection, A FLASH OF DARKNESS, is officially available! My publisher is Borda Books -- click here to buy it directly...

From Borda Books: A FLASH OF DARKNESS​ A collection of some of the quirky dark stories that I've written, as curated by Max Talley....

I've got a weekly Substack (that is Millennial-speak for "free newsletter") and you can sign up if you like. That way you'll get a weekly...

Recognizing that you have your own taste, I have three ways you can access my newest work. Follow this link to my story "Spruce, Queen of...

As the daughter of immigrants who fled the country for fear of political retribution, it was a staggering thing to be invited to the...

Not a joke. My short story "The Fourth" which was previously published in Tales from the Canyons of the Damned, issue 32 and was...

I'm just as shocked as you are. But there it is: I have been publishing posts on Medium since mid 2020 which frequently get picked up in...

Poetry has always been a love of mine and I am thrilled to announce that September brought the publication of a villanelle I wrote called...

I used to frequently post photos on my Facebook page about things I saw or admired or was dismayed by in my Lower Manhattan neighborhood....

Available JUNE FIRST, the new anthology Once Upon A Time, from Red Penguin Press, features stories from the fantasy genre and explore the...

I have agreed to run a rare Creativity Spa for mothers on the Summer Solstice! ALL LEVELS welcome. There are not many spaces left & it’s...

Oh my friends. Book & Baby won first place at the Indie Book Awards in the category of writing/publishing. The winners and finalists will...

This outstanding piece (read time ~10 min) in Mutha Magazine: "Figuring It Out As You Go Along," features me interviewed by bestselling...

You know I don't blush easily. I live in Manhattan and have seen my share of strange and interesting things. Passersby mutter compliments...

Midwest Book Review just said: Now here is a review of a book that will be of particular and special interest to writers and their...

I've never been on a Livecast as appropriately titled as this one! I was interviewed by Stephanie Larkin of Red Penguin Books (she wore...