I love stories! I’ve been creating them, in one form or another, since I was a little girl playing with my plastic farm animals and dreaming that one day I’d have a barn.

Fast forward a bunch of years (a couple of careers, some stints as head of a nonprofit, two kids, and a move from the city to the suburbs to the mountains) and I’m still writing stories!

What I’m most excited about …

My most recently completed novel! Seeds of the Pomegranate, a historical novel set in Gangland New York in the 1910s and 1920s. It’s the story of Mimi, a talented painter turned counterfeiter, torn between loyalty to her family and etching out a life on her own terms.

What’s up next …

The Orphans’ Wheel, Rosa Inglese’s story, set amidst the turmoil of Sicily’s post-Garibaldi years. This is the tale of a young noblewoman forced to relinquish her newborn baby, struggling to reclaim her child and to find her way back to her lover.

And Whispers in Suburbia, a braided narrative told by Susan and her husband Peter, who flee the cramped rowhouses of Brooklyn in the early 1960s in search of the promised land — a newly constructed development of look-alike cape cods and ranch houses built on swampland in Staten Island.

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