Novelist: Author of the Professor Karen Pelletier mystery series from Doubleday and Poisoned Pen Press
Essayist: Op-Ed essays in the New York Times
English Professor
Fordham University
Tufts University
Amherst College
Creative Writing Teacher
Manhattanville College Writers Week
Fordham University, Visiting Writer
Hudson Valley Writers Center
Scholar: Areas of expertise include;
Emily Dickinson
Popular American women's literature
History of the Book in America
Award Recipient:
Research Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities (1990)
Agatha Nominee for Quieter Than Sleep (1997)
Noted Author of the Year, New York Library Association (2001)
Creative Arts Fellow, American Antiquarian Society (2004)
