She graduated from Trinity College in D.C. in 1959, married and is the mother of nine children. Upon retirement, she began writing and in addition to winning the Hoosac River Poetry Contest, she has poems published or forthcoming in Spindrift, TheNorth Adams Transcript , Off the Coast, The Green HillsLiterary Lantern, Rise Forms, Avocet, Storm Cellar, Wilderness House Literary Review, Boston Literary Magazine and Written River.