I began my career as a visual artist, and created a large body of work expressing, through universal symbols culled from Greek and Christian mythology and the archetypes of my own unconscious, such themes as: birth, love, sex and death. I had completed more than a dozen marble sculptures—writhing fragmented figures that I imagined continuing on past the edge where the sculpture stops, when marble sculpture became too limiting in size and scope. I then began to create larger-than-life-sized figures in plaster and taught myself to cast in concrete. In 1986, I had my first exhibition—a solo show at the Sutton Gallery on East Fifty-seventh Street.
Though I have been writing poetry and short stories since I was ten, at the age of sixty-four, I decided to learn the craft of writing. While I may lack an MFA, I'm not entirely self-taught—I've been working intensely with a brilliant mentor. So far, seven excerpts from LOSING ART, a memoir, have been published in: Mayday Magazine; Wilderness House Literary Review; The Dillydoun Review; Minerva Rising; New Mexico Review; North Dakota Quarterly, and Litro Magazine USA online. I just signed my first book contract with Querencia press for Voices of the Sea: A Dream Series.
Currently, I'm working on a novel, MINUS ONE, a coming of age story focusing on three generations of damaged, alcoholic/drug-addicted women who are incapable of loving, or expressing anything but a toxic love. The same themes that run through my sculpture as a binding force continue to haunt my writing.
I live in the Catskill mountains with two large rescue dogs who rescue me every day.
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