Who ever thought that a girl from Brooklyn would fall in love with...gourds? But I did, on trip through the southest with my husband, and life hasn't been the same since! I now decorate them, write about them in the Lili Marino series, and have a whole room of my house set aside for gourd work.In my life BG (Before Gourds)I wrote seven mystery novels and edited six anthologies as Marilyn Wallace. I've been a high school English teacher, a potter, a pastry chef, and a computer programmer, and now those experiences are fair game for my fiction.After living in upstate NY and in northern CA, my husband and I have returned to our roots in Brooklyn, NY, where our two grown sons also live.