She has worked as a librarian, editor, and English teacher, and has been teaching at Senior Adventures in Learning (SAIL) for the past twelve years. She is also a Unitarian Universalist and Humanist, and a graduate of Brooklyn College, the University of Wisconsin, the University of California at Berkeley, and Florida Atlantic University. She will be happy to share her current book, Autumn Leaves: Collected Poems, which contains poems from her life and imagination.