I am a writer and performer who straddles the arts and sciences, creating musical and poetic works based on my lifelong passions for the environment, music, and family history. I’m happiest when those themes of my life intersect.

Formally educated in the sciences, I’ve been a classroom teacher, college adjunct, textbook author, and science editor at prominent NY publishing houses. Most recently, I retired as Communications Manager of New York Sea Grant, where I promoted vital research along our coasts, sometimes even writing a song about it.

Music was always a parallel passion. Throughout my career I have been composing original music, as well as performing jazz and blues in a wide variety of venues. I’ve sung with the USO on an army base, an international orchestra in Greece, a university jazz band, New York night clubs, and honky-tonks from Alaska to Maine.

Over the last decade, my love of writing has expanded to include poetry, often focusing on environmental themes, my immigrant family heritage, and romantic relationships. My performances intersperse spoken poetry with sung jazz standards, creating the unique style of reading that I’ve brought to the New York and Long Island poetry scene.

I’ve read on National Public Radio, at Cornelia Street Café, Bowery Poetry Club, Parkside Lounge, Greenwich Village Bistro, the Huntington Poetry Barn, and Walt Whitman Birthplace. My original poetry has been published in several anthologies including Polarity eMagazine, Paumanok: Interwoven, Grabbing the Apple, and Long Island Quarterly.