Welcome to my website:
I’m an award-winning author, storyteller, artist, and educator. My compelling call-to-action in visual and literary arts explores color, texture, relationships, loss, redemption, and transformation.
Storytelling
In my professional personal narrative storytelling work I create and perform true stories from real-life experiences that can grapple with self-acceptance, identity, or uncover the power of truth and how creativity can save lives.
My true essays and poems are published in books, anthologies, literary journals, and online storytelling journals. In tandem, I’m a speaker at conferences, a Poet-in-Residence in schools with Silvermine Art Partners and a Guest Lecturer at universities across the country, teaching feature writing/personal narrative essays in Journalism, Public Relations, and New Media Departments.
News Flash
April 2024: I am grateful to have received seven awards from the Connecticut Press Club Professional Communications 2023 Contest – First Place, Second Place, Third Place (2), Honorable Mention (3)
My 2021 PechaKucha visual story “Creativity is the Mother of Reinvention” can be viewed and listened to on the global website here.
“Awesome and Awe-inspiring PechaKucha. Your story is so powerful and the images are amazing.”
from a 2022 PechaKucha visual storytelling viewer
(More testimonials)
Featured Works
Beautiful true stories from writers around the world (including me) are in the new book “Clarity,” published by The Pathfinders Collective. E-books, soft and hard covers can be purchased here and all proceeds benefit Planned Parenthood. My story is “A Devoted Chamber of My Heart Opens.”
Listen to me being interviewed by dynamic communicator, Denise DiGrigoli, on “Mav’s Coffee Clarity” podcast. Tune in to hear an unrehearsed, unscripted, unedited, inspiring dose of creativity and clarity here. Watch it on YouTube here.
Writing
My true story, Nighttime Dreams Become Stepping Stones for Healing, is published in “The Story Beast: Stepping Stones,” February 2024, page 63, you can read it here.
Darien Library, Darien, CT asked me to create and give a presentation on promoting yourself as a writer, you can watch it and take notes here.
Art
Eleven of my clay monotypes are in the invitational exhibition of eight Connecticut printmakers, April 27 – June 2, 2024, “Views from a Matrix.”
I am creating a one-woman, multi-media performance and visual art show that I am taking on the road. It’s about losing 50-years worth of my original art in a flood right before my art retrospective, the piece explores loss, redemption, and transformation.
Three of my lithographs and engravings were juried into the “Responding to the Overturn of ROE V WADE Anthropology of Motherhood” virtual exhibition. You can view this powerful artist call to action here. I am honored to have my art included. While I created the prints several years ago, their powerful messages resonate today.
~ Watch and listen to my Gallery Talk at the Carriage Barn Arts Center, Spectrum Contemporary Juried Art Exhibition, New Canaan, CT here.
~ Check out my art video essay for the Bridgeport, CT Public Schools, Arts Count Day, here.
~ Be inspired by watching my video about my creative process of making clay monoprints here.
