I am full-time professor in the language arts and social sciences division at Northern Virginia Community College in Manassas, where I teach composition, creative writing, and children’s literature. I have published poetry online at Blackcatpoems, Counterexamplepoetics, CalliopeNerve, and Sleet Magazine. I maintain a blog, where I post original and cover music as well as flash fiction.  I have written numerous poems and have published a YA paranormal adventure novel "The Hidden World." I am a graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Art in the Writing for Children and Young Adults program..