About
I have been writing fiction for more than 60 years in addition to enjoying a fulfilling career as a medical writer and cofounding the prestigious Writers@Work literary conference in Utah. My first novel, Racing Into the Dark, was published by EP Dutton in 1989; the book was optioned for a movie and paperback and German rights sold. Little Great Island, my novel about the power of love and community in the face of climate change, published May, 2025, by Sibylline Press. My short stories have appeared in Cimarron Review, Shenandoah, and Network, among other literary journals. Little Great Island has been called "an extraordinary achievement and a pure pleasure to read," by National Book Award winning author Ha Jin.
Featured Work
Little Great Island
After offending the powerful pastor of a cult, Mari McGavin has to flee with her six-year-old son. With no money and no place else to go, she returns to the tiny Maine island where she grew up - a place she swore she'd never see again. Here Mari runs into her lifelong friend Harry Richardson, one of the island's summer residents, now back himself to sell his family's summer home. Mari and Harry's lives intertwine once again, setting of a chain of events as unexpected and life altering as the shifts in the climate affecting the whole ecosystem of the island...from generations of fishing families to the lobsters and the butterflies.
