An author, linguist, university professor, blogger, world traveler, feminist, spiritual agnostic, and advocate for animal rights.

I am the author of Writing as a Sacred Path: A Practical Guide to Writing with Passion and Purpose (Ten Speed Press), Women's Concerns: Twelve Women Entrepreneurs of the 18th and 19th Centuries (Peter Lang) and The Land Across the Bridge, a young adult fantasy novel represented by the Julia Castiglia agency. I have published over 60 articles and essays, including my personal essay, "Cave Temple of the Goddess," which appeared in A Woman's Path: The Best Women's Spiritual Travel Writing. I am the editor of No Walls of Stone: An Anthology of Literature by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Writers and of The Whirlwind Review, an online literary journal focused on the connections between writing and spirituality.