After graduating from Harvard University in 1983 with an undergraduate degree in humanities, I began writing about nursing. My articles appeared in The Boston Globe, Revolution: The Journal for Nurse Empowerment, and Soap Opera Weekly, where I published a piece on how nurses are portrayed on soap operas and then shifted my focus to writing about soaps.

In the early 1990s, I wrote several articles for SOW, including, "Who Really Watches Soap Operas," a 1996 demographic analysis that has been cited in numerous scholarly articles. From 2005-2007, I advised a Master's thesis project on soap opera in the Comparative Media Studies (CMS) program at MIT. My critical observations on soap opera, appear on several soap boards and media blogs, including three recent pieces on the CMS Convergence Cultural Consortium (C3) blog, and CMS founder Henry Jenkins's blog. I'm currently writing an essay comparing daytime and primetime soap opera for a scholarly collection co-edited by three C3 researchers.

My second writing front is short plays and screenplays. This past March (2008), my 10-minute play, 50 and Counting, was performed at the Boston Playwrights Theatre as part of the second annual SWANDay celebrations. In 2007, my one-act play, Settling In, was broadcast on Somerville Community Access Television. Other short plays have been performed in greater Boston, New York and Los Angeles. I've also completed a screenplay, Never Can Say Goodbye, and the treatment for a second, The Good Father.