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DID YOU KNOW? My latest novel is Until It Was Gone (2024) published by Black Rose Writing. It was Short Listed for the Hawthorne Prize (2024).
Give Me Shelter (2022) was short-listed for the Somerset Award in Literary and Contemporary Fiction (2022); Finalist for the Maxy Award in Literary and Humor Fiction (2023); and Short Listed for the American Writing Awards Hawthorne Prize (2023).
Give Me Shelter is my ninth novel. The others are: Broken Pieces of God (2021), Gavin Goode (2019), Parrot Talk (2017); More More Time (2015); Chimney Bluffs (2012); Charlie No Face (2011); Pumpkin Hill (2007); and Darkness is as Light (2005).
A little about myself. I have been a country preacher, a community mental health therapist, an academic family psychologist working in a medical center and a director of a counseling center in a public school setting. In 2010 I retired.
I was an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center for almost twenty years. During my tenure there I taught in a Family Medicine Residency Program, practiced family therapy and was the Director of a Family Therapy Training Program. My primary interest was working with families dealing with illness and developing partnership between mental health professionals and medical professionals.
I am also an ordained Presbyterian minister. I graduated from seminary (Boston University) in 1975. I served a church full-time from 1975-1981 before entering the mental health field permanently. Initially I worked in community mental health before going to the University of Rochester Medical Center.
My educational background includes two master's degrees and a PhD.
I started writing seriously in seminary. But it wasn't until I entered academics that I wrote in a disciplined manner. During my career at U of Rochester Med Ctr, I wrote over 65 papers and book chapters and co-authored two professional books. I also published creative nonfiction and personal essays.
It wasn't until 2001 that I started writing fiction. My first novel, Darkness is as Light, came out in 2005. I have written eight additional novels since then.
For several years I wrote a blog, "Going Out Not Knowing," for Psychology Today magazine.
I was a writing instructor at Writers and Books in Rochester, NY.
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