I didn’t cook professionally until I was thirty-three, and I came to fiction even later. I used to say, when everyone is at the train station, I’m usually at the airport.

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I spent twenty-two years in culinary, half in kitchens and half writing about the food. I published two cookbooks: The Oregon Farm Table Cookbook and For the Love of Seafood. Now I’m writing the stories that have been swirling in my head for nearly a decade. Some are picture books starring Happy Huey and a sassy pixie who hides behind his ear. Some are poems, and one particular story is a novel drawn from my own childhood.

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I’m a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) and the Central Oregon Writers Guild.

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