Fresh out of college, I flew to Alaska from Wisconsin eager to teach school in a young community ringed on three sides by mountains, and on the fourth, the ocean. Ah wilderness! Six years later, children in hand, I followed my husband to the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory near Barrow, Alaska. Thus began an adventure as vivid today as when I first stepped off the airplane and glimpsed the Arctic pack ice on the distant horizon. I had arrived at the top of the world! I became the first science writer for the “lab”, a job that was my entry into arctic science. Best job ever! I accompanied scientists onto the sea ice and to tundra field sites to report on their research for news outlets. We left the Arctic and Alaska after two decades and headed south to Washington, D.C. where I accepted a series of technical writer jobs with various government agencies.

Over the course of my professional life, I co-authored an article for Naval Research Reviews, wrote a creative nonfiction piece published in Bacopa Literary Review, and a one-act play which placed first in the Mount Dora Festival of Literature and Music. I am also pleased to be a founding member of the Writers Alliance of Gainesville.