She is a founding member of the poetry group Take Nine (a group of women who write and perform together), and a Board Member for Lit Cleveland, an organization working to serve and promote area writers. In 2016 she received a Creative Workforce Fellowship. The “Transition and Transformation” workshop is part of her fellowship outreach, which focuses on the value of writing as a way to cope with change. The Creative Workforce Fellowship is a program of the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture, made possible by the generous support of Cuyahoga County residents through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture. Archives