When someone asks me what I do for a living, I find myself answering that I am a novelist. My novel, Girl Talk, is due out in hardback by Simon and Schuster's Pocket Books in January 2001. It has sold to publishers in five additional countries, so far. Until last year, however, when I started Girl Talk, I swore I'd never write a novel. I was strictly a short story writer and poet. But if you'd asked me three years ago if I thought I'd ever write poems seriously, I would have thought you were crazy. In the past two years, however, I've placed nearly thirty poems in literary magazines such as Poetry, The Southern Review, Northwest Review, Quarterly West, and Indiana Review. My manuscript of poems was a 1999 finalist in Breadloaf's Bakeless Prize through Middlebury College and a 1999 finalist in the Stan and Wick Poetry Competition through Kent State University. Last night watching an interview with Neil Simon, my husband asked me if I'd ever write a play. I answered, "Why would I ever write a play?" Which means I'll probably write a play soon.

Right now, I am at work on a second novel. I am also trying to find a publisher for my manuscript of poems, Daughters of God and the A-bomb, in time to promote it while on tour in the U.S. and abroad with my first novel. I live in Newark, Delaware with my husband, David G.W. Scott, a poet, and my two young children, the third on its way.