Creative writing teacher college poet, pianist, photographer, now teaching Literacy to Immigrants through Oakton Community College. Studying Spanish and piano.
Taught writing-therapy in the Psychology Department at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston. Also taught at Oakton Community College. Worked with students on psychological disability: Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security Disability and Section eight or HUD housing. Educated prisoners at Joliet Prison, Lexington, Kentucky a third prison through the mail and sent books to each prisoner. BA in English Literature. Was accepted on a fellowship to The Ragdale Foundation. Scholarships to Breadloaf Writers Conference in Middlebury, Vermont; The Squaw Valley Community of Writers in Olympic Valley, California; The Aspen Writers Workshp; I was asked to study with Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Lisel Mueller at The University of Indiana in Bloomington; The Split Rock Writers Workshop in Duluth, Minnesota. I was published in a mental health textbook Group Psychotherapy: Practice and Development by Barry Levine, Ph.D published by Prentice Hall in New Jersey. My poetry book, A Complete Mute-Light is on Amazon and my poetry book Disc of the Sun was published by Guernica in Canada. I play classical piano but I played the flute for 10 years. I volunteered at Greenwood Care a mental hospital in Evanston.
I loved working in the library. I had wonderful teachers: Gerald Unks, Bonnie Sweringer, Charles Rathbone, my history teacher (cannot remember his name),
Mrs. Abramson. Loved literature, Logic, Biology, Algebra. But my passion was always literature, poetry, music, art, theatre.
