Celebrating East End Writers of All Genres
Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Prose, and more

My family moved from the U.S. to England when I was seven years old, crossing the Atlantic on a ship called the Seven Seas.

 As we sailed away from the New York harbor right past the statue of Liberty, I couldn’t yet imagine the role that both countries would play out in my world.

My father, cartoonist J.B. Handelsman worked for Punch and The New Yorker. I grew up watching him draw - quick pen and ink sketches that captured the visual essence, accompanied by witty captions. My love of art and literature came from him. My love of music, from my harpist mother.

At a young age, I moved to West Wales, fell in love with the wild countryside, made lifelong friends and met my future husband, singing in a band called Swamp Talk.

I lived in Wales until the tragic death of my first child drastically changed the course of my life. I began to write about this and all aspects of my life in memoir, essays and poetry. Writing has opened a whole world inside me and one that I want to share.

I am a writer, art-teacher, painter and puppet maker living on Long Island, N.Y.