false 1315725 She has Bachelors Degrees in History and English from The College of William and Mary, Masters Degrees in Literature and Writing & Rhetoric(commonly referred to as Composition Studies) from Virginia
Commonwealth University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University in Los Angeles.
Publications include The William & Mary Gallery, Sherwood Forest, and several local newspapers. She has published one book of poetry, Between The Lines, and is the Editor in Chief of The Sylvan Echo online literary journal.
She lives and writes on a “pleasure” farm in rural Virginia with a horse, cats, chickens, peacocks, eight parrots her partner, and her youngest child.
She is passionate about writing, her parrots, good literature and music (anything but rap and opera), politics, things Irish, movies, her partner, her kids, and her day job – not necessarily in that order on any given day. ]]> female Powhatan, VA 07/2008 05/2009 45 412 398 true 5640399 read 3 true 2791779 currently-reading 11 true 2791778 to-read 91 false 3187826 classics 58 false 3187825 fiction 51 false 3187829 sci-fi-fantasy 51 false 3187824 nonfiction 27 false 3187846 irish 21 false 3187836 poetry 15 false 3187830 essays 15 false 3187828 discworld 14 false 3187835 drama 9 false 3187848 craft 6 false 3187827 humor 2 false 3240670 how-to The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30404415 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158208331s/1384.jpg 1315725 Mel http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1215691629p2/1315725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1315725-mel Thu, 07 May 2009 04:25:12 -0700 Anna Karenina (Mass Market Paperback) by Leo Tolstoy]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55238756 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1221762041s/152.jpg 1315725 Mel http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1215691629p2/1315725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1315725-mel Thu, 07 May 2009 04:24:30 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/event/show/33770-the-sylvan-echo-s-looming-deadline http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1215691629p2/1315725.jpg 1315725 Mel http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1215691629p2/1315725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1315725-mel Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:37:41 -0700 Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10) by Terry Pratchett]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47233120 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168566178s/34510.jpg 1315725 Mel http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1215691629p2/1315725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1315725-mel Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:11:42 -0800 Windows Vista (Missing Manual) by David Pogue]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47233093 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171402767s/97766.jpg 1315725 Mel http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1215691629p2/1315725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1315725-mel Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:10:40 -0800 Windows Vista Annoyances: Tips, Secrets, and Hacks (Paperback) by David A. Karp]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47233074 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175783974s/556752.jpg 1315725 Mel http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1215691629p2/1315725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1315725-mel Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:09:52 -0800 Walking to LA Milpa: Living in Guatemala With Armies, Demons, Abrazos, and Death (Hardcover) by Marcos McPeek Villatoro]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45117501 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223627019s/1426363.jpg 1315725 Mel http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1215691629p2/1315725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1315725-mel Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:07:11 -0800 Maskerade (Discworld, #18) by Terry Pratchett]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44279251 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170961678s/78876.jpg 1315725 Mel http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1215691629p2/1315725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1315725-mel Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:46:13 -0800 Hogfather (Discworld, #20) by Terry Pratchett]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29111583 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168566224s/34532.jpg 1315725 Mel http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1215691629p2/1315725.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1315725-mel Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:38:18 -0800 more...]]>