Me, Myself, and I

Born in 1967 in the Bronx, NY. Graduated from Manhattan College in 1989 with a BA in English and World Literature. Employed as an editor at Plenum Publishing 1990-2000. Married in 1999. Currently working on a manuscript of poems for publication. Her poems have appeared in The Mount Vernon Independent, The Mount Vernon Inquirer, Westchester Times Tribune, and are shortly to appear in the literary journal MoonLit. She has been a featured reader at such venues as ABC NoRio, The Back Fence, and Centerfold Coffeehouse. A contributor to Associated Content, www.associatedcontent.com An Editor with OnPoint Advocacy.

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Music

Mozart, The Cars, Johnny Cash, Vivaldi, Noel Coward, Black 47, Bill Monroe, Billy Joel, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, John McCormack, Lynard Skynard, The Wolfe Tones, Vera Lynn, Rudy Vallee, Francis Albert Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Dean Martin

Films

Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House, Sabrina, Henry V, Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Wanderers, I Was A Male War Bride, Casablanca, Flying Down to Rio, Top Hat, North by Northwest, I Know Where I'm Going, Indiscreet, Notorious, Pillow Talk, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Now Voyager, Mrs. Miniver, The Grass is Greener, Ronin, Heat, Since You Went Away, Lawrence of Arabia, Ben Hur

Scared Of

Nothing that I can put a name to.

Happiest When

Reading, writing, editing, cooking.

Favorite books/authors

Pomp and Circumstance, Elegance, Shakespeare's Imitations, Noel Coward's diaries, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, The Oxford Book of Quotations, Eureka Street, Wife Dressing, The White Goddess, Debrett's Correct Form, Shakespeare's Darker Purpose, The Bible, Shakespeare's Complete Works, Elizabeth Craig's Enquire Within, Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management, Noblesse Oblige, The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate, Pigeon Pie, Emergency Contact, November Wedding, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Brian Cleary, Michael Donaghy, Janet Frame, Patrick McCabe, Richard Price, Nancy Mitford

Interests

Autism research, cookery, interior design, rare books, botany, photography, reading, writing, vintage clothing and jewellery.

McCarra Poetry Reading Number 2, June 2009

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