Author, Speaker and Teacher
Greater Pittsburgh Area
Author, Speaker and Teacher
Greater Pittsburgh Area
Published award-winning author who teaches workshops in memoir, travel writing, food writing, socially-engaged personal writing and general creative nonfiction. A humorous and dynamic speaker with experience doing readings and speaking at community organizations, college campuses, Unitarian churches and Buddhist temples. Former diversity trainer and subject/author/star of a PBS documentary film about her international (Nigerian & Nordic) family.
MFA, Nonfiction, Fiction, 1998 — 2002
AB, Southeast Asian Studies, 1982 — 1987
PEN Beyond Margins Award for Best Biography/Memoir