Meet the Author
"A child who reads will be an adult who thinks."
-unknown
I was born and raised in New York, spent eighteen years in Boston after college, and then landed in Toronto, Canada, where I live with my family and pets.
I studied French and Theater Arts at Cornell University, where I was one of a lucky handful of Chimesmasters who performed chimes concerts in the campus bell tower three times a day. I was sure I was going to be a veterinarian from the time I could talk, but then decided to be a people doctor and went to medical school. About ten years after graduating from Harvard Medical School, I took my first course in writing picture books, which led some years later to an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Now I split my time between working as a psychiatrist and writing, interspersed with mom duties and walking the dog.
I love indoor and outdoor rock climbing and you'll find me at the climbing gym once or twice a week. I'm totally addicted to it!
Here’s me rappelling in northern Israel. Only went down though. Had to hike back up!
