I am an enthusiastic scholar of American, Irish, and English history, Victorian literature, myths, legends, folklore, and Pagan religions. My prose and poetry are generally Gothic in theme and usually set in historical periods. My favourite authors are Edgar Allen Poe, Samuel Clemens, Charles Dickens, Henry James, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H.P. Lovecraft, M. R. James, Washington Irving, and Oscar Wilde, just to name a few, and my favourite poets are Keats, Byron, Yeats, Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Longfellow. I have three books of poetry currently on the market, three Gothic novels, one anthology of six horror stories, and several novellas and novelettes. I was raised in Wheatridge, Colorado and attended The University of Colorado at Denver. I currently live in Corvallis, Montana in the great Pacific Northwest.
A lover of language, a philologist I'm told, I have taught composition and creative writing for over thirty years at the colleges and high schools of Southern California. Born and raised on Long Island, New York, I grew up in the suburban half hardship half luxury life that allowed me escape and salvation in books. If I have done anything well in my days, it is that I have fostered the same love in my two teenaged daughters. Healthy and productive in Huntington Beach, land of surf and sea, I live with my two daughters, husband of 35 years, two cats and dog. I consider myself, above all, a reader erotically seduced by the texture, flavor and scent of words. I try to give back that same pleasure I receive from language through play. Peace, Pam