I learned to read at home when I was in kindergarten; by the time I was ten years old, the libraries and public schools of Ohio, Florida, Indiana and Wisconsin had introduced me to literature. I've been writing for publication since 1961, when a literary magazine at the University of Illinois published my parody of "Chicken Little," done as if Dostoevsky had written it.  Since then, my work’s been in magazines and anthologies, and my books have been published by a variety of presses, from Alta’s radical feminist Shameless Hussy to conventional Doubleday and some seriously wonderful small presses in Oregon.  

You can read a poem, essay or story right here, right now.