I am a novelist, a writer of fiction, devotionals, poetry, reviews, and essays and my works have appeared in many publishing venues, in print and online. I live in New York with my husband, two sons, cat Freddie and my dog, Hemotep. I've written for as long as I can remember. My Jamaican family was always telling stories and mother had memorized the opening chapters from several books, such as Ivanhoe, A Tale of Two Cities, etc. I was especially good at adapting. Somehow I felt the stories I had inherited from the European tradition (stuff we learned in school or watched on TV) always needed to be tweaked to include (subtly) matters that were important to a little Jamaican girl growing up in a Jewish-neighborhood in Brooklyn. I remember the day I decided I was a writer. It was the day a classmate grasped a poem I had written from my desk and brought it to the teacher who proclaimed the poem "great." I was hooked. I studied Literature in college, not creative writing. Because I wanted to write great literature that would be ageless. I still hope my stories will be timeless. My reviews appear in print and at various online sites. My first novel, Wind Follower was published by Juno Books in September 2007. Other published Fiction and Essays.-- "Oreo Blues"- Essay in LIFENOTES: Personal Writings By Contemporary Black Women, edited by Patricia Bell-Scott. Published by W.W. Norton.-- "Homecoming" - Short story. Won first prize in New Mass Media's Annual contest and was a third place winner in the annual national Contemporary Western Fiction contest.-- "Lingua Franca" - Short story. So Long Been Dreaming: Post-Colonialism in Science Fiction -- Arsenal Pulp Press - October 2004.-- "Black is the color of my true love's hair," - Short story. Fantastic Visions III - Fantasist Enterprises - August 2005.-- "The Australians"- Essay in LIFE SPICES from Seasoned Sistahs: Writings By Mature Women of color, Published by Nubian Images Publications.-- Homecoming at the Borderlands Cafe - Short story to be published in Jigsaw Nation anthology - DNA Publications March 2006-- "The Cat Came Back" - Nudges from God anthology.-- "That Smile" - "Then an angel came along" anthology.-- Additional devotionals appear in Christian print magazines and websites.The Gleaners -- in Black Faery anthologySo Far -- in Black Science Fiction Society anthologyChangeling -- in Griots edited by Milton Davis and Charles SaundersHousewarming -- in When the Morning Stars Sang anthology edited by Lyn PerryA Cry For Hire - Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, edited by Warren LapineI've been a participant in NYC's The Women=s Caucus for Art and was a participant in HarperCollins Multicultural Mentor Program back in the day. I've read at many venues including the African-American Read-In - a national literacy cable project , Mercy College, Trinity School, Purchase College, WHUD/WLNA, The Institute for Photographic Resources and other venues. I've also worked as a finish-not-fail teacher. Plus I design fabrics.