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A page to discuss all things memoir: publication, essays, proposals, reviews, with guest interviews, and my own personal journey to the publication of my debut memoir about my mother's 1989 unsolved murder..

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Memoirist/essayist | MFA from Goucher MBA from University of Baltimore Booth, Memoir Magazine, Little Patuxent Review, and more. Upcoming article in The Atavist Summer 2025