Confessions of a Closet Writer (or what made me become a writer?) As the middle child of working class parents, I fell in love with where words could take me early in life.  From about ninth grade on my favorite authors were Katherine Mansfield, Tennessee Williams, Gwendolyn Brooks, Dorothy Parker, Richard Wright, and Albert Camus. Though I was studying dance, always in the back of my mind, I knew I wanted to be a writer.  Besides novels and poetry, I have written several plays.   Such as: The Bard of Frogtown  Red Eye Theatre /Spruce Hill Theatre  /Interact Theatre (Writing Aloud Fest)   I Don’t Dance  Theatre in the Round                                     The Homeboy  Hedgerow Theatre (Women’s Play Festival)                   Choice  Festival of ‘Wrights (New York)   Skylark Interact Theatre (Writing Aloud Fest)   Favorites:   Color            Blue, but I wear a lot of red. Old Song         "Rainy Night in Georgia" Current Song     TBA Old Movie        12 Angry Men Current Movie    TBA Old TV Show      Twilight Zone and Sanford and Son (tie) Current Show     Last Comic Standing