I was born in Vermont, grew up in Maine, and--except for a decade in the Washington D.C. suburbs--have spent most of my life in rural New England.
I have three grown children with my husband of 32 years. We relocated to the city several years ago and now call downtown Boston home.
I published my first novel, Mother’s Nature, in 2011, followed by The Orbiter in 2013, and Broken Blue Willow in 2017. I collaborated with my mother, folk-artist Jane Comtois, to create two children’s books of poetry, First Snow: Poems and Folk-art of Winter (2012) and How Big Is the World: Poems and Folk-art of the Seasons (2018). In 2023, I released Lockdown Poems: National Poetry Month During the Covid Years.
I am currently working on my first children’s picture book, Prince Carlos and the Checkered Pants, and a yet-to-be-titled fourth novel.
