Writer / author / memoir teacher

Rediscovering the Old Country My journey to peace with my Polish heritage. This story was published in the November 2010 issue of In the Fray, an online magazine that promotes global understanding. When I was growing up in a Polish neighborhood in upstate New York, I wasn’t so interested in the Old Country. My grandparents … Read more

In Search of Regina

This afternoon, I printed out the manuscript of my novel about my ancestor, Regina Culisz. She lived in the 18th century in the Austrian Empire, in what is now Poland. I’m a memoir writer, but I know very little about this woman, so I’m going to have to tell her story as fiction. In other … Read more