Born and raised in San Francisco, California, I went looking for adventure at the age of nineteen, headed north to Canada, where I found what I was looking for. For many years I lived off the grid in the back-country of British Columbia before moving to the city of Vancouver in 1986.

In the nineties I worked part time as a location scout and set stylist for magazine photo shoots, later moving into writing feature articles for home lifestyle and travel magazines, which I did for many years.

In 2007 I was accepted into Simon Fraser University’s The Writer’s Studio and soon after graduating, became host and organizer of TWS Reading Series, a monthly literary event for notable and emerging writers.

My poetry has been published in Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, emerge, TWS website, The Toronto Quarterly, Leaf Press, Contemporary Horizon Magazine, Contemporary Horizon Anthology, Poetry Nook, and The Maynard, and her poem The Day The Rain Stopped was long-listed in the UK’s National Poetry Competition out of over 12,000 entries. In fall of 2019, my work appeared in the anthology Against Death, published by Anvil Press.

With two published books of poetry and prose, Delicate Availability and Because It Is, my inspiration continues in a third book coming soon. As well, I write romance novella's under the pseudonym Madison Lake or Madison Lake's Modern Trash.