As seen in these pages from my first book, The Littlest Christmas Tree, I’ve always been interested in writing and publishing, and my spelling has always been a bit spotty. As a little girl growing up in Buffalo, New York, I was an avid and passionate reader. In school I was encouraged in my love of reading and writing. I went on to major in English at Wellesley College, where I graduated cum laude and with departmental honors for my thesis on Louisa May Alcott.

After graduating, I attended the Radcliffe Publishing Course at Harvard University, then spent the next years working in the trenches of book publishing. I eventually became an editor at Dance Magazine. When the publication moved to the west coast, I began a new phase of my career as a freelance editor and writer. My writing has appeared in Time Out New York, Dance Magazine, Pointe, Dance Teacher, Dance Spirit, Publishers Weekly, Stagebill, Playbill, Wellesley magazine and publications of New York City Ballet. I also volunteer as an editor for Harlem Live, a student-written and -produced online magazine.

In 2002, I had the privilege of editing THE ART OF PETER MAX (Abrams Books, 2002), American Library Association’s Booklist’s pick for best 100 books of 2002. I’m also the author of WEDDING ZEN: Calming Wisdom for the Bride (Chronicle Books, 2004) and INFUSED: 100 INFUSED COCKTAILS (Chronicle Books, 2006).

But my real love is writing fiction. I’ve recently finished MR. CHURCHILL’S SECRETARY: A Novel, represented by Lippincott Massie McQuilkin. It’s about a young woman who works for Prime Minister Winston Churchill in London during the Blitz. And I’m currently working on a novel about dancers in the New York City Ballet, set in the 1950s.

I live in Brooklyn with my husband, a puppeteer, television writer, and director, in our cat's home.