About me

I was born in Maastricht, The Netherlands, and as a child lived there and in London and Amsterdam, and came to America when I was 17. I’ve lived in many places since, New York, Bloomington, Indiana, New Orleans, Berkeley and Los Angeles in California, and have had a number of careers: midwife, practical nurse, hospice nurse, masseuse, yoga teacher, college teacher of English literature and of writing. I like transitions, and creating rituals. These days I am a writer in many genres: script, poetry,journalism. My first novel, “Mary of Bellingham” was published in 2004. Since then I’ve been involved mostly in social justice and environmental activism. With my mate, director Jeremy Kagan, I wrote and produced the ten-part series, ACLU Freedom Files for LINK and Court TV in 2005. My manual for activists with Thomas Linzey, “Be The Change: How To Get What You Want in Your Community,” was published by Gibbs Smith in 2009. I just finished editing collection on women’s leadership, with Nina Simons of Bioneers, which will come out in October of 2010. I live with Jeremy Kagan, in Venice, California and am working on my next novel.