*         Author of The Best Little Grammar Book Ever: 101 Ways to Impress With Your Writing and Speaking (copyright 2010)

*         Instructor of grammar/writing workshops at local colleges

*         Vendor, Sonoma County Book Festival, 2010

*        Guest Speaker: Sonoma County Office of Education, Society of Technical Communications, Redwood Writers, Romance Writers of America

*         Reader: Redwood Writers Author Launch 2010, Sonoma County Book Festival 2010 and 2011,  Aqus Café Literary Saloon 2010

*         Radio Interview: Internet Voices Radio.com, 2010

*         Panelist, Sonoma County Library “The ABC’s of Writing”: Writing Genres 10-6-10 and 2-7-11, and Publishing 10-27-10

*         Reviews and articles: Midwest Book Review, Petaluma Argus Courier, Sonoma County Life, and The Writing Resource

*    Eight years as a public school teacher

*    Vice President, Redwood Writers

*    Member of Bay Area independent Publishers Association (BAIPA)

*    Guest blogger on Women on Writing and other blogs

*    Newsletter contributor to Planet Admin Training and BAIPA

 

Instructor, Santa Rosa Junior College and College of Marin

Design and conduct grammar/business writing workshops for community education students using The Best Little Grammar Book Ever!

 

English Teacher, 2004 – present. Petaluma Junior High School.  Petaluma, CA

 

Freelance editor/proofreader. 1986 – present. Partial client list:

·         CRC Press/Taylor & Francis: Textbooks, all subjects

·         Course Technology: Titles include e-Commerce and Flash 5

·         Human Kinetics: Titles include Muscle Mechanics

·         Digital Equipment Corporation: Technical documentation

·         Wang Laboratories: Technical documentation

·         Alcatel USA: Telecom documentation

·         Waights Taylor, author of Our Southern Home

 Technical Writer, Editor, and Supervisor, Wang Laboratories, Inc.

      Feature Writer. Middlesex News (Framingham, MA)

  UPI Editor. Stuart (FL) News

  Reporter. Palm Beach (FL) Times

 

Education

 California State University at Dominguez Hills:

            M.A. Humanities, December 2008

Dominican University, San Rafael, CA:

             Single-subject teaching credential in English, June 2004

Harvard University Graduate School of Education:

            Graduate coursework in organizational behavior

Simmons College, Boston, MA:

            B.A., Journalism/English Literature

 

Awards/Memberships

2011 BAIPA Award for Best Reference Book

California Writers Club, Redwood branch

Independent Book Sellers Association

Bay Area Independent Publishers Association

Award of Excellence, Society of Technical Communications

Best of Show, Poetry, Sonoma County Fair, 2001

Tech to Teach grant, 2003

APEL Scholar Program 2003-2004

 

Community/Volunteer Work

            Vice President, Redwood Writers, a branch of California Writers

 Newsletter editor, Redwood Writers

 Editor, Redwood Writers  anthology, Vintage Voices

 Guest speaker, Redwood Writers Anthology Launch

 Superintendent’s Advisory Committee – Petaluma City Schools

 Springboard Leadership – Sonoma County Office of Education

 Curriculum Committee, Petaluma City Schools

 Membership chair, Santa Rose Figure Skating Club board of                              directors