is an emerging/aging transfemale writer based in Salem, MA. Last year, she retired from a 30-year career in educational publishing and is now transitioning, as well as trying to accelerate the emerging and slow down the aging. She has published, or has short stories forthcoming, in The Literatus, Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, quip literary review, 96th of October, Fiction on the Web, and The Broadkill Review.