Fiction Writer, Poet, Playwright, Educator, Memoir Writer and Literary Critic
One of public television’s (PBS) excellent programs for preschool children is Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood. This show replaced Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood in 2012. Unlike the original program, which had real people and children, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood is in animated cartoon format. …
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Yona Zeldis McDonough’s The Doll Shop Downstairs (New York: Puffin Books/Penguin, 2009). 120 pages. In the middle-grade historical fiction chapter book The Doll Shop Downstairs, we meet the Breittlemann family of New York City. When World War I breaks out,…
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My poem “Wild Turkeys in Mississippi, May 16, 1863″ has won first prize in the literary journal Crucible‘s poetry contest. This poem is about visiting the battlefield of Champion Hill in Mississippi with my husband Michael, where we saw many…
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